The Banana Pi BPI-RV2 is a single-board computer designed for networking applications with a 2.5 GbE WAN port, five Gigabit LAN ports, and M.2 and Mini PCIe slots that can be used for SSDs, wireless ...

RISC-V chip design and IP powerhouse, SiFive, just announced availability of its new HiFive Premier P550 development board, and it's sure to make waves at the RISC-V Summit this week in Santa Clara.

RISC-V architecture has made a lot of progress in recent years, but when I write about new RISC-V hardware I often add a note that the platform tends to lag behind x86_64 and ARM when it comes to ...

Processor vendors have always tried to create a large software ecosystem around their products, because it creates stickiness and it naturally “locks-in” large numbers of customers who have invested ...

Proprietary, closed architectures have traditionally limited companies in a few ways. First, it’s important to consider that for a long time, there were heavy restrictions on customization. Some of ...

How far can a RISC-V design be pushed and still be compliant? The answer isn’t always black-and-white because the RISC-V concept is very different from previous open-source projects. But as interest ...

Canonical announced today it's collaborating with SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. in an effort to make Ubuntu run on SpacemiT's RISC-V systems-on-chip (SoCs) that use the RVA23 profile. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...

In context: The RISC-V chip architecture is just ten years old, while the x86 standard was first introduced in 1978. Yet, someone is trying to bring a somewhat working emulation of Intel's CPU ...