
RISC-V
Esperanto Works to Fill the Software Gap for RISC-V AI Servers
Esperanto Technologies is working to accelerate software support for its novel, high-performance AI chips. The company has ported a large-language model (LLM) from Meta to its RISC-V-based ET-SoC-1, which ...Full Article
Kneron Unveils Its First RISC-V SoC Built for Autonomous, Assisted Driving
AI chip vendor Kneron has announced its most advanced chip so far – its Kneron KL530 which is the company’s first product to include an image signal processor and ...Full Article
Esperanto Now Testing Its Fledgling 1,092-Core RISC-V ET-SoC-1 Chips
Back in December, Esperanto Technologies made waves when it announced ET-SoC-1, a new RISC-V-based chip aimed at machine learning that packed nearly 1,100 cores onto a package small enough ...Full Article
Former Qualcomm CEO Signs On As Advisor to 5G Chipmaker EdgeQ
EdgeQ, a Silicon Valley startup that’s building a customizable RISC-V system-on-a-chip (SoC) that includes a 5G modem, got a big boost today when it announced that former Qualcomm CEO ...Full Article
Esperanto Unveils ML Chip with Nearly 1,100 RISC-V Cores
At the RISC-V Summit yesterday, Art Swift, CEO of Esperanto Technologies, announced a new, RISC-V based chip aimed at machine learning and containing nearly 1,100 low-power cores based on ...Full Article
Nvidia-Arm Deal a Boon for RISC-V?
If and when Nvidia closes its $40 billion acquisition of Arm Ltd., the transaction could provide a boost for the competing RISC-V architecture. As regulators in the U.S., China ...Full Article
DARPA Chip Effort Pivots to Securing US Supply Chain
A three-year-old Defense Department electronics initiative is bearing fruit in the form of public-private partnerships in areas ranging from post-Moore’s Law chip architectures to the growing national security requirement ...Full Article
SiFive Adds Tools for Cloud-Based Chip Design
Chip designers are drawing on new cloud resources along with conventional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to accelerate IC templates from tape-out to custom silicon. Among the challengers to ...Full Article
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto ...Full Article