
RISC-V gaining ground
There really is demand out there
The CEO of the RISC-V Foundation told the assembled throngs at this year's HiPEAC conference that there is a growing demand for the Open Source chip.

RISC-V Foundation escapes to Switzerland
Avoiding authoritarian US trade embargos
The RISC-V Foundation, which sets standards for the open-sourced CPU architecture and controls who can use the RISC-V trademark on products, says it is escaping the shackles of the Trump regime and escaping to Switzerland. It is not clear if a motorcycle is involved.

RISC-V processor gets carbon nanotube bells and whistles
Not as exciting as you might hope
Boffins have used carbon nanotubes to make a general purpose, RISC-V-compliant processor that handles 32-bit instructions and does 16-bit memory addressing.

ARM goes on offensive against RISC-V
RISCY strategy
Chipmaker ARM is going on the offensive against the RISC-V open-source processor instruction set architecture with a new propaganda education site.

RISC-V gets weaponised
SiFive building silicon
The RISC-V open-source architecture, created by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has been around since 2010.