RISC-V is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that rapidly transforms the CPU design and development landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs, RISC-V allows free access to architecture ...

Arm and Qualcomm are at loggerheads and in court, which could have some interesting implications for the future of CPU design. The phrase “big company” is somewhat relative in the context of consumer ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

The Star64 is an interesting proposition since it offers a completely open-source CPU architecture that the Raspberry Pi doesn't. RISC-V is still a work in progress, but its accessibility has opened ...

Imagination Technologies has announced Catapult, a new family of RISC-V central processing unit (CPU) designs aimed at the next generation of computing. The Kings Langley, United Kingdom-based company ...

The editors at SDxCentral have been writing some stories about semiconductor companies and how these companies’ products relate to our coverage of next-generation networks. You can find all these ...

Two new open source silicon groups, one led by Linux Foundation and the other by Intel, launched this week. And both new groups formed just days before the granddaddy of open source hardware groups, ...

Something to look forward to: InspireSemi is betting big on its "supercomputer-on-a-chip" product called Thunderbird. The company believes that leveraging open-source RISC-V architecture and agnostic ...

A handful of commercial efforts are experimenting with open-source CPU cores. Contract-manufacturing giant Flextronics, for example, is laying plans to tap into open-source hardware for its ASICs. And ...

Wave Computing has emerged from bankruptcy, renamed itself MIPS, and will now build RISC-V CPUs. Yes, you read that right. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

OpenPOWER Foundation, an open developer community for the POWER ISA, today announces the winners of the Microwatt Design Challenge (Microwatt Momentum Hackathon), in collaboration with ChipFoundry.

Open-source computers have so far lacked good graphics, but Gizmosphere’s new Gizmo 2 is an exception. The Gizmo 2 is an uncased single-board computer that will sell for $199. The computer can be used ...