ARM is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, with its licensees shipping billions of chips a year. But a rival has emerged in the past few years called RISC-V, a new kind of ...
RISC-V architecture has made a lot of progress in recent years, but when I write about new RISC-V hardware I often add a note that the platform tends to lag behind x86_64 and ARM when it comes to ...
With Arm slated to start trading on the Nasdaq this week, investors are looking at potential risks for the company. While analysts told CNBC it's not an immediate threat, Arm itself warned that if it ...
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 ...
Five companies that manufacture semiconductors for smartphones, automobiles and more have announced that they will form a company designed to advance the open source RISC-V architecture, in a move ...
Canonical announced today it's collaborating with SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. in an effort to make Ubuntu run on SpacemiT's RISC-V systems-on-chip (SoCs) that use the RVA23 profile. The ...
Proprietary, closed architectures have traditionally limited companies in a few ways. First, it’s important to consider that for a long time, there were heavy restrictions on customization. Some of ...
Arm is facing down its biggest competition ever, with the up-and-coming RISC-V architecture threatening to unseat it as the CPU at the center of almost every portable device. Now, one of Arm’s biggest ...
RISC-V architecture is gaining traction in China as a geopolitically neutral alternative to x86 and ARM architectures dominated by the U.S. The rise of RISC-V presents a potential risk to Advanced ...