Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Hail Zeus
Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.
Meta training its own AI chips
RISC-V business
Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.
Framework releases RISC-V mainboard for Framework Laptop 13
Priced at $199
Framework has released a RISC-V motherboard for its 13-inch laptops. The DeepComputing RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13 costs $199.
SiFive hires big core engineer
Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction
After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.
SiFive P550 HiFive motherboard shipping, sold out
Great name for a dev computer
SiFive and generally RISC-V are recently getting a lot of attention. With ARM and X86 well established in the market, many see RISC-V as a healthy alternative. The company is pacing out strongly as it stands out with its broad portfolio and being produced in silicon with billions of devices shipped, from the many RISC-V competitors. Now the company announced the availability of the world’s highest performance RISC-V development board simply called SiFive HiFive Premier P550 board.
Nvidia expects to have used a billion RISC-V cores this year
It is not all about CUDA
By the end of the year Nvidia will have shipped a billion RISC-V cores under the bonnet of its GPUS.
RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86
Torvalds’ prophecy
The softly spoken Linux prophet, Linus Torvalds has been consulting his bones and concluded that RISC-V might fall into the same development chasm between hardware and software developers seen by Arm and x86.
Android heading towards RISC-V
Unless the US government, Arm and Intel can stop it
The Android ecosystem is moving toward a RISC-V future with OS support underway, and Qualcomm is stepping up to announce the first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC.
RISC-V International warns about US interference in development
No different than other open technology standards like Ethernet
The chief executive of RISC-V International has warned that US efforts to corner the chip market under the guise of security could have a chilling effect on open standards and the development of better chips.
Qualcomm shows more interest in RISC-V
Arm should be worried
One of Arm's biggest customers Qualcomm is trying out RISC-V and getting involved in a joint venture dedicated to the architecture.
