Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
EDN

The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...
Business Wire

Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core Ahead of Competition

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it has designed and tested a 32-bit CPU core based on ...

RISC-V Silicon Successfully Fabricated on Intel 3 In Major Chip Milestone

The chip was designed as part of Europe's broader effort to reduce reliance on non-European processor technologies.
Business Wire

Frontgrade Gaisler Leads the Way in RISC-V Processor Development for Space Applications

GOTHENBURG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), Frontgrade Gaisler is designing a new RISC-V processor tailored to meet the requirements of microcontrollers ...
Geeky Gadgets

Synopsys unveils innovative RISC-V ARC-V processor IP for next-gen chip design

If you’re closely following the semiconductor space, you will be pleased to know that Synopsys, Inc. has made a significant announcement this week. With the introduction of the new RISC-V ARC-V ...
Hackaday

Compute The Mandelbrot Set With A Custom RISC-V CPU

When faced with an FPGA, some people might use it to visualize the Mandelbrot set. Others might use it to make CPUs. But what happens if you combine the two? [Michael Kohn] shows us what happens with ...
EDN

Customizable RISC-V processor is vendor-independent

Bluespec’s MCUX RISC-V processor allows developers to implement custom instructions and add accelerators to FPGAs and ASICs. MCUX joins the company’s MCU RISC-V family of processors designed for ultra ...
Liliputing

This upcoming mainboard brings a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V (RVA23) chip to the Framework Laptop

After launching a mainboard with a StarFive JH7110 processor early last year, Deep Computing released a higher-performance ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Verifying A RISC-V Processor

Verifying an SoC is very different than verifying a processor due to the huge state space in the processor. In addition to the tools needed for an SoC, additional tools are required for a step and ...
Hackaday

Android: Coming Soon To A RISC-V Processor Near You

In the roughly decade and a half since the Android mobile operating system appeared on the scene it has been primarily sold on devices with an ARM core at their heart, but along the way it has also ...