RISC-V
- Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this yearwww.theregister.com Alibaba’s research arm teases server-class RISC-V processor
And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout
- Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUswww.theregister.com Leaked doc suggest Google may buy more SiFive cores for TPUs
Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least
- RISC-V Options?
Hey everyone,
I've noticed this community is a bit barren. I'd like to add some posts myself but from a more ignorant POV.
It has come to my attention that there is not nearly enough software torture in my life. Hearing how companies are starting to add barriers to so-called "Translation layers" and other software pieces that give functionality to the underlying hardware...
What types of projects does the open source community need to pursue with respect to RISC-V drivers, firmware, or other necessary pieces to somewhat guarantee that the processor is compatible with GPUs, RAM, I/O, and other low level functions that hardware components perform?
Where should I start in my RISC-V journey? Is there a beginner computer or developer kit that I can purchase that won't incinerate my wallet? I don't expect to game or train LLMs off of a RISC-V-based computer, but am curious as to what a fully free hardware setup would consist of.
Love the idea of RISC-V!
- $99 RISC-V dev board adds Raspberry Pi, Clik board interfaceswww.eenewseurope.com $99 RISC-V dev board adds Raspberry Pi, Clik board interfaces
The $132 PolarFire Discovery kit is based on a Microchip MPFS095T FPGA with a quad-core, RISC-V 64bit Linux processor and 95K of logic
- Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardwarecamel-cdr.github.io Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware
In this article we'll discuss how to achieve the speedup below for UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion, using the RISC-V Vector extension.
- Edge AI chiplet uses SemiDynamics RISC-V coreswww.eenewseurope.com Edge AI chiplet uses SemiDynamics RISC-V cores
YorChip is developing a 12nm edge AI chiplet design that will be under 25 sq mm using RISC-V cores from Semidynamics in Barcelona.
- China Is All In on a RISC-V Futurewww.hpcwire.com China Is All In on a RISC-V Future
The state of RISC-V in China was discussed in a recent report released by the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The report, entitled “Examining China’s Grand Strategy For […]
- CEO interview: MIPS’ Sameer Wasson on a RISC-V rebootwww.eenewseurope.com CEO interview: MIPS' Sameer Wasson on a RISC-V reboot
eeNews Europe interviewed Sameer Wasson, CEO of processor licensor MIPS to find out how he expects to navigate a processor market in flux.
- MIPS snags top SiFive brains to amp up RISC-V business – Drew Barbier and Brad Burgess join after restructure at former employerwww.theregister.com MIPS picks up former SiFive bosses in RISC-V drive
Drew Barbier and Brad Burgess join after restructure at former employer
- First RISC-V mini laptops emergewww.notebookcheck.net First RISC-V mini laptops emerge: Sipeed Lichee Console 4A available for pre-order
Sipeed's new Lichee Console 4A mini laptop features a 7-inch IPS touchscreen with 1280 x 800 resolution and is powered by a RISC-V CPU with 4 cores produced by Alibaba. It also supports up to 16 GB LPDDR4x RAM plus up to 2 GB NVMe SSD and 128 GB eMMC storage.
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- This CPU is FREE! - LTT video about Milk-Vfarside.link This CPU is FREE! - Milk-V Pioneer with RISC-V
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- Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Acceleratorswww.nextplatform.com Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
Many have waited years to hear someone like Prahlad Venkatapuram, Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, say what came out this week at the RISC-V
- RISC-V Summit: Ghosts of x86 and ARM Lingerwww.hpcwire.com RISC-V Summit: Ghosts of x86 and ARM Linger
Editor note: See SC23 RISC-V events at the end of the article At this year’s RISC-V Summit, the unofficial motto was “drain the swamp,” that is, x86 and ARM, with […]
- Why Nordic is getting involved in RISC-Vblog.nordicsemi.com Why Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
What RISC-V will do is give our customers is an extra option when seeking to minimize power consumption in certain applications where the (many) tradeoffs of not using an Arm-based core are acceptable.
- China Deploys Massive RISC-V Server in Commercial Cloudwww.hpcwire.com China Deploys Massive RISC-V Server in Commercial Cloud
If the U.S. government intends to curb China’s adoption of emerging RISC-V architecture to develop homegrown chips, it may be getting late. Last month, China’s Shandong University deployed a server […]
- Synopsys joins RISC-V party with fresh embedded core designswww.theregister.com Synopsys joins RISC-V party with fresh embedded core designs
Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector
- RISC-V summit in Santa Clara. Schedule:events.linuxfoundation.org ONE Summit | LF Events
The ONE event for End to End Connectivity Solutions powered by Open Source; enabling the collaborative development necessary to shape the future of networking and edge computing.
- SiFive at the Ubuntu summit in Riga:www.youtube.com Ubuntu Summit 2023 Day 2 [Live Stream]
Join us in Riga for the second day of the 2023 Ubuntu Summit.
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- AMD MicroBlaze V Processor: A Flexible and Efficient RISC-V Processor
The AMD MicroBlaze™ V processor is a soft-core RISC-V processor IP for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. The MicroBlaze V processor is based on a 32-bit RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). It allows developers to leverage the open-source RISC-V software ecosystem, is hardware compatible with the classic MicroBlaze processor, and is fully integrated in the Vivado™ and Vitis™ tools design flow. The MicroBlaze V processor is designed to be highly modular with a configurable architecture suitable for embedded systems applications.
- AMD MicroBlaze Vwww.ept.ca RISC-V processor is flexible and efficient - Electronic Products & Technology
AMD MicroBlaze V soft-core RISC-V processor is based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) and designed to be highly modular with a
- BeagleV®-FireRISC-V, FPGA and open hardware, all together nowwww.beagleboard.org BeagleV®-Fire
New BeagleV-Fire features FPGA and RISC-V CPU and is available now around $150. Credit-card sized, Linux-enabled board based on Microchip Polarfire SoC offers high-speed I/O with BeagleBone cape compatible headers and SYZYGY and M.2 connectors.
- RISC-V & US politics cont.www.firstpost.com US lawmakers press Biden for plans on Chinese use of open chip technology
RISC-V, pronounced ‘risk five’, is a free open-source technology that competes with costly proprietary technology from British semiconductor and software design company Arm Holdings, and Intel Corp
US politicians really don't seem to be able to grasp the idea of Open Standards, do they? :/
- RISC-V + CHERIwww.electronicsweekly.com You’re safe with CHERI
Codasip, the RISC-V Custom Compute specialist, has announced the first commercial implementation of CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions
- Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be readyopensource.googleblog.com Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
- lowRISC Announces New OpenTitan Project Partner, zeroRISCwww.design-reuse.com lowRISC Announces New OpenTitan Project Partner, zeroRISC
lowRISC C.I.C., the open-source silicon ecosystem organization, today announced zeroRISC has joined the OpenTitan project. zeroRISC is a startup focused on providing a cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and trustworthiness for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices.
- Google will release Android RISC-V emulators to test apps in 20249to5google.com Google will release Android RISC-V emulators to test apps in 2024
The Android team today provided an update on RISC-V adoption, including an initial timeline and emulator support. Earlier this month...
- RISC-V Apps
Someone recently asked about RISC-V apps, and someone else asked if there was a list of apps available. I thought it might be a good idea to start one here.
These are some of the apps I'm interested in, that apparently run on RISC-V (I've not tested them because I don't have a RISC-V board yet) :
- Ardour
- Audacity
- Calindori
- Gedit
- GIMP
- Handbrake
- Inkscape
- Krita
- Moment - a Matrix client
- Nitro
- qTox
- Scribus
- Sphinx
- Stellarium
- Tor Browser
- VLC
I've seen LibreOffice Writer running too.
Podman and Docker also work.
If you know of other apps (and I'm sure there must be), please add them below.
- Miniature RISC-V Developer Laptop Looks Like a Lenovo ThinkPad Clonewww.tomshardware.com Miniature RISC-V Developer Laptop Looks Like a Lenovo ThinkPad Clone
Who left the ThinkPad in the dryer too long?
- Sophgo SG2380 – A 2.5 GHz 16-core SiFive P670 RISC-V processor with a 20 TOPS AI acceleratorwww.cnx-software.com Sophgo SG2380 - A 2.5 GHz 16-core SiFive P670 RISC-V processor with a 20 TOPS AI accelerator - CNX Software
Sophgo SG2380 is an upcoming 2.5 GHz 16-core RISC-V processor based on SiFive Performance P670 cores and also equipped with a 20 TOPS AI accelerator using
Coming to a desktop-class mini-ITX motherboard in 2024.
- Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoCarstechnica.com Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC
Qualcomm and Google project will enable more RISC-V Android devices in the future.
- Is RISC-V ready for HPC prime-time: Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU
Nick Brown, Maurice Jamieson, Joseph Lee, Paul Wang
> The Sophon SG2042 is the world's first commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU for high performance workloads and an important question is whether the SG2042 has the potential to encourage the HPC community to embrace RISC-V. > In this paper we undertaking a performance exploration of the SG2042 against existing RISC-V hardware and high performance x86 CPUs in use by modern supercomputers. Leveraging the RAJAPerf benchmarking suite, we discover that on average, the SG2042 delivers, per core, between five and ten times the performance compared to the nearest widely available RISC-V hardware. We found that, on average, the x86 high performance CPUs under test outperform the SG2042 by between four and eight times for multi-threaded workloads, although some individual kernels do perform faster on the SG2042. The result of this work is a performance study that not only contrasts this new RISC-V CPU against existing technologies, but furthermore shares performance best practice.
- SiFive Announces Differentiated Solutions for Generative AI and ML Applications Leading RISC-V into a New Era of High-Performance Innovationfinance.yahoo.com SiFive Announces Differentiated Solutions for Generative AI and ML Applications Leading RISC-V into a New Era of High-Performance Innovation
SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 11, 2023--SiFive announces differentiated solutions for AI, and new RISC-V era supported by high-performance Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 products
Does anyone know what the SiFive P870 processor is the equivalent of in ARM performance? How far is it behind the latest ARM offerings?
- Risc-V group warns against US restrictionstechcentral.co.za Risc-V group warns against US restrictions - TechCentral
Possible government restrictions could hold back the global tech industry, Risc-V International's CEO said.
>The only difference [from Arm] is that the marketplace is allowed to use these standards without proprietary licences from a controlling company.
A rational, sensible response from Calista Redmond.
