[导读]在半导体行业经历百年未有之大变局的今天，一颗名为RISC-V的“开源芯片”正以破竹之势重构全球芯片生态。从加州大学伯克利分校的实验室到阿里云数据中心，从特斯拉自动驾驶芯片到亿级物联网设备，这个诞生仅15年的指令集架构，正以“开源、免费 ...

The Coral NPU aims to address the software fragmentation on entry-level AI accelerators that makes them difficult to program. By releasing an open-source NPU and associated source code, Google hopes ...

One of the major components inside a smartphone or any device, is the System on a Chip, or as we say in general terms, a “Processor” or a CPU, in the case of personal computers. From Intel’s ...

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and ...

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 ...

The rise of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is accelerating the adoption of RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is reshaping the global semiconductor landscape. At the ...

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 ...

China is ramping up its RISC-V ambitions with the launch of the Shanghai Open Source Computing Research Institute, unveiled at the 5th RISC-V Summit China on July 17, 2025. As the country's second key ...

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 ...