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Hardware Industry

What's going on with SiFive and RISC V?

Why it matters: RISC V pioneer SiFive has gone through several iterations, but has now solidified a business model that essentially positions it as a direct competitor to Arm. If they can continue to execute they will benefit from much of the very healthy RISC V momentum.

Full story By Jonathan Goldberg, October 22, 2023, 1:03 PM

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Google Wearable Tech

Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Wear OS-based wearable devices

Highly anticipated: After betting on the future of RISC-V with an industry-wide alliance, Qualcomm is now bringing its first chip based on the open-source architecture to the mass market. The American chipmaker will join Google in creating a new hardware platform for the Wear OS system.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, October 18, 2023, 7:33 AM

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Trikarenos is a RISC-V chip for miniaturized space missions

A fault-tolerant microcontroller designed for energy-constrained spacecrafts

By Alfonso Maruccia, October 6, 2023, 12:44 PM

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Milk-V Mars CM is a RISC-V Compute Module in a Raspberry Pi form factor

The RISC-V world has its own compute module for hardware development

By Alfonso Maruccia, September 6, 2023, 9:39 AM

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Industry Electronics

Five chipmakers bet their money on the future of RISC-V

A new joint effort to accelerate the adoption of the RISC-V open architecture

By Alfonso Maruccia, August 7, 2023, 8:41 AM

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Hardware Electronics

Star64 is a new RISC-V, single-board computer for developers and hobbyists

The RISC-V alternative to Raspberry Pi is almost ready to ship

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 3, 2023, 1:50 PM