Recent #RISC-V news in the semiconductor industry

8 months ago

➀ Bolt Graphics has introduced its Zeus GPU platform, designed for gaming, rendering, and supercomputer simulations.

➁ The company claims that its Zeus GPU can outperform Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 by around 10 times in path tracing workloads.

➂ However, Zeus is limited to path tracing and FP64 compute workloads due to its lack of support for traditional rendering techniques.

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8 months ago

➀ China plans to release guidelines encouraging the national use of RISC-V-based chips, according to a Reuters report.

➁ The RISC-V architecture is attractive due to its openness, allowing anyone to freely obtain, learn, modify, and extend it.

➂ RISC-V has been embraced by global companies like Alibaba, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA, contributing to its rapid development.

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8 months ago

➀ The Chinese government is shifting its focus from x86 and Arm CPUs to promote RISC-V chips, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign technologies.

➁ The new policy is expected to be announced soon, marking the first official government push for RISC-V adoption in China.

➂ Chinese companies like Alibaba and Nuclei System Technology are investing in RISC-V, and the technology is gaining traction in the country.

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8 months ago

➀ RISC-V has transformed from an emerging force to a mainstream one after more than a decade of development;

➁ More and more companies are entering the RISC-V field and achieving remarkable results, with Qualcomm shipping 650 million RISC-V cores by the end of 2023 and ARM producing about 3 billion chips based on RISC-V cores;

➂ Alibaba's DAMO Academy Xuan Tie team is fully committed to RISC-V, revealing breakthroughs in server-grade CPU and showcasing the full picture of the high-performance ecosystem.

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8 months ago

➀ RISC-V is emerging as the native computing architecture for AI.

➁ DeepSeek's success has sparked innovation in computing architecture.

➂ RISC-V, with its open-source nature, is well-suited AI applications.

➃ The flexibility and scalability of RISC-V make it ideal for AI computing.

➄ The first server-grade CPU based on RISC-V, C930, is set for delivery.

➅ Alibaba's XuanTie leads the international open-source community in RISC-V development.

➆ RISC-V is poised to become the dominant architecture in AI accelerators by 2030.

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8 months ago

➀ A new chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor architecture aims to balance performance, efficiency, and flexibility for AI workloads.

➁ The architecture utilizes modular chiplets, including a vector processing chiplet and a matrix multiplication accelerator, to optimize various AI computation aspects.

➂ The RISC-V solution addresses memory bottlenecks and enhances energy efficiency with time-based execution and dynamic power gating.

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9 months ago

➀ Nandni Jamnadas is a UKESF Scholar and a student at Royal Holloway, University of London, also working as a Software Tool Chain Engineer at Embecosm.

➁ She is a member of the Embecosm GNU compiler team and leads the CORE-V GNU tool chain project.

➂ Her achievements include contributing to GNU, creating tailored tool chains for customers, and implementing new features in the CORE-V tool chain.

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9 months ago
➀ Geekbench 6.4 has been released, featuring support for upcoming CPUs and better support for RISC-V and Arm processors.; ➁ The new version includes support for RISC-V Vector Extensions and improved support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extensions.; ➂ The benchmark now reports the instruction set usage and enhances CPU topology detection, particularly on Linux systems with ARM and RISC-V processors.
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9 months ago

➀ Semidynamics, founded in 2016, transitioned from RISC-V design services to licensing customizable 64-bit RISC-V processor IP in 2019.

➁ UPMEM's selection of Semidynamics' IP for large language models in 2024 led to increased interest from other fabless semiconductor companies.

➂ The company is focusing on providing customized solutions and encouraging early collaboration to address challenges and meet future demands in the AI sector.

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9 months ago

➀ A new architecture for RISC-V CPUs introduces advanced matrix extensions and custom quantization instructions that significantly improve CNN acceleration.

➁ The design features scalable, VLEN-agnostic matrix multiplication instructions, ensuring consistent performance across different hardware configurations.

➂ A 2D load/store unit optimizes memory access for matrices, reducing overhead and increasing computational efficiency.

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9 months ago
➀ SpacemiT introduces the VitalStone V100 with up to 64 RISC-V cores; ➁ The processor is based on OpenC910 project design and is made on a 12nm process technology; ➂ Each core achieves a SPEC CINT2006 integer score of 9, placing it on par with older processors like the Intel Xeon E5520 and AMD Opteron 6212 but with a higher core count.
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10 months ago
➀ Hacker Aedan Cullen gains access to the OTP secret by glitching the RISC-V cores of the RP2350; ➁ The RP2350 was introduced as a successor to the RP2040 with added security features; ➂ The hacking challenge was to uncover a secret hidden in the RP2350's OTP memory.
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