SiFive's oversubscribed series G round of financing suggests the industry's historical caution around the RISC-V architecture ...

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Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the state-of-the-art ...

Adding network services in a secure fashion to today's network infrastructure requires deploying a large number of separate devices. These can include a Layer 4+ switch, an anti-spam gateway, firewall ...

Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture. The funding comes at a time when RISC-V is showing greater momentum as an ...

A group of prominent chipmakers is forming a new venture to broaden the adoption of the RISC-V processor architecture. The venture, which was unveiled by its backers this morning, will initially focus ...

Academia has been looking at specialization for many years, but solutions were rejected because general-purpose solutions were advancing fast enough to keep up with most application requirements. That ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

As enterprises continue to explore different ways to optimize how they handle different workloads in the data center and at the edge, a new startup, Ubitium, has emerged from stealth with an ...