An AI agent just designed a complete RISC-V CPU from scratch in 12 hours

The processor – dubbed VerCore – was created by chip design startup Verkor.io using its agentic AI system, Design Conductor.
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Banana Pi introduces a tiny RISC-V computer with up to 60 TOPS of AI performance

The Banana Pi BPI-SM10 is a tiny computer with SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processors, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5-RAM, and an ...
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AI builds a RISC-V CPU in hours

Verkor.io’s agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously designed a complete RISC-V CPU core, VerCore, from a 219-word spec in just 12 hours. While its performance matches a 2011-era laptop ...
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AI agent designs a RISC-V CPU core from scratch

Startup Verkor.io’s agentic AI orchestrated the entire design process from a 219-word prompt ...
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China's humanoid robot makers eye RISC-V over Nvidia Jetson

At the second humanoid robot half-marathon held in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town), several "Linglong 2.0" humanoid robots powered by a RISC-V AI CPU — the K3 chip — ...
Digi Times

China builds open RISC-V chip platform with Xiangshan, Ruyi OS

China's Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched next-generation chip and operating system co-development alongside the debut of the Xiangshan open-source processor and Ruyi native OS at the 2026 ...
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Nvidia (NVDA) Backs $3.65B RISC-V Chip Startup Eyeing AI Data Center Market

SiFive raised $400M at a $3.65B valuation with backing from Nvidia to develop RISC-V CPU designs for AI data centers ahead of ...
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Samsung Prepares PCIe 5.0 QLC SSD with Custom RISC-V Controller Design

Samsung is taking a notable step in SSD controller development by introducing a proprietary design based on the RISC-V instruction set. The new controller debuts in the upcoming BM9K1 PCIe 5.0 SSD, ...
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Ryzen 9950X3D2 just became AMD's most expensive 3D V-cache processor ever

Last month AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, a new flagship processor that pushes cache capacity to near-insane levels. Built on the same Zen 5 architecture as the rest of the Ryzen 9000 series ...