Architectural conformance and implementation verification are necessary but different for RISC-V designs, yet few verification engineers have experience on the conformance side. While RISC-V enables ...

As AI drives demand for advanced computing infrastructure, chip architectures are at a crossroads. While proprietary instruction set architectures (ISAs) like x86 and Arm dominate the market, their ...

Though the RISC-V Summit North America is over, you can peruse the videos of most of the keynotes and sessions here. The list is quite long, so we picked a few and included them in this space, such as ...

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 ...

The era of universal processor architectures is giving way to workload-specific designs optimized for performance, power, and scalability. As data-centric applications in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...

Old-timers might recall the idea of "RISC" as a once-upon-a-time processor design ideology. RISC processors were mostly used for servers from Sun Microsystems, DEC, and other companies of a bygone era ...

What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...

Nvidia is bringing its popular CUDA software to the open-source RISC-V chip design. The move was announced this week at the RISC-V Summit in China. It will allow systems using RISC-V processors to ...

The industry is increasingly talking about benefits brought by the RISC-V architecture, but is it even the right starting point? While it may not be perfect, it may provide the flexibility necessary ...

RISC-V, pronounced “risk five,” is a modern open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. In simple terms, it’s like a blueprint that ...