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. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. SiFive just announced an array of new additions to its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. is moving into the RISC-V processor business after announcing plans to buy the chip developer MIPS Technology LLC for an undisclosed price. GlobalFoundries said it ...

Arm’s low growth rates in China could be due to the growing adoption of RISC-V, which is supported by the Chinese government. China’s support for RISC-V is bearing fruit with the introduction of the ...

What if the future of computing wasn’t locked behind proprietary architectures? Imagine a world where developers and hobbyists alike could harness the power of open source hardware to build, innovate, ...

SiFive and open-source software vendor Red Hat are collaborating to bring enterprise Linux to RISC-V embedded systems. Red Hat Linux 10 is now available on the SiFive HiFive Premiere P550 platform, an ...