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 ...
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 ...
redsharknews.com

The key CPU architecture you've never heard of: RISC-V

The RISC-V CPU architecture currently accounts for under 1% of the world’s processor market, but that is going to change rapidly over the next years as its parallel processing is perfectly suited to ...
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 ...
Nasdaq

Synopsys Expands Its ARC Processor IP Portfolio with New RISC-V Family

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has extended its ARC® Processor IP portfolio to include new RISC-V ARC-V™ Processor IP, enabling ...
VentureBeat

Synopsys expands processor designs with RISC-V ARC-V Family

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Synopsys announced its plans for expanding its processor intellectual ...
Geeky Gadgets

RISC-V Revolution: How Open Processors Are Changing the CPU Market

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...
Business Wire

SiFive Announces New High-performance RISC-V Datacenter Processor for Demanding AI Workloads

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today SiFive, Inc., the gold standard for RISC-V computing, announced its new SiFive Performance P870-D datacenter processor to meet customer requirements for ...
Phys.org

A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their ...
Forbes

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based ...
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 ...