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The Launch of RISC-V Now! A New Chapter in Open Computing

The Launch of RISC-V Now! A New Chapter in Open Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 02-04-2026 at 8:00 am

RISC Now Andes

On February 3, 2026, Andes Technology officially announced the launch of RISC-V Now!, a new global conference series designed around the next phase of RISC-V adoption: real-world deployment and commercial scaling. This initiative marks a shift from exploratory and research-focused events toward practical, production-oriented… Read More


The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again

The Foundry Model Is Morphing — Again
by Jonah McLeod on 01-29-2026 at 10:00 am

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When Morris Chang left Texas Instruments in 1983 to found TSMC, he was not merely starting a new company—he was proposing a new industrial logic. Chang recognized that semiconductor manufacturing had become so capital-intensive that it could no longer survive as just one function inside a vertically integrated company.… Read More


SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion

SiFive to Power Next-Gen RISC-V AI Data Centers with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion
by Daniel Nenni on 01-26-2026 at 10:00 am

SiFive Data Center Nvidia NVLink Fusion

In a strategic move that could reshape the future of AI data center design, SiFive, a leading developer of RISC-V processor IP and compute subsystems, has announced plans to integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its high-performance data center platforms. This collaboration bridges the open-architecture… Read More


Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line: An Update on the Progress of Key RISC-V Extension
by Daniel Nenni on 01-20-2026 at 6:00 am

Pushing the Packed SIMD Extension Over the Line Andes RISCV Summit

The rapid growth of signal processing workloads in embedded, mobile, and edge computing systems has intensified the need for efficient, low-latency computation. Rich Fuhler’s update on the RISC-V Packed SIMD extension highlights why scalar SIMD digital signal processing (DSP) instructions are becoming a critical architectural… Read More


Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space

Verifying RISC-V Platforms for Space
by Bernard Murphy on 01-13-2026 at 6:00 am

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Space applications are booming, prompted by rapidly declining launch costs now attainable through commercial competition. Thanks to ventures like SpaceX, the cost to put a satellite into low earth orbit (LEO) has dropped from $20k/kg to $2k/kg today and is expected to drop further to $200/kg or lower. Plummeting costs drive … Read More


2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics

2026 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
by Daniel Nenni on 01-08-2026 at 10:00 am

Volker Politz Semidynamics

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Sales Officer for Semidynamics and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process.

Semidynamics was founded in 2016 as a design service company with a focus on RISC-V. This was so successful that the CEO decided to pivot the company towards its own … Read More


CEO Interview with Rabin Sugumar of Akeana

CEO Interview with Rabin Sugumar of Akeana
by Daniel Nenni on 01-06-2026 at 10:00 am

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Rabin Sugumar was Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect at Marvell/Cavium and built and led the architecture group for the ThunderX Arm server processor line. Most recently he led the architecture of the ThunderX3 processor, which had industry leading single thread performance and socket level performance at time of … Read More


RISC-V: Powering the Era of Intelligent General Computing

RISC-V: Powering the Era of Intelligent General Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 12-29-2025 at 8:00 am

Andes RISC V Summit 2025 Charlie Su

Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology, delivered a compelling keynote at the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, asserting that RISC-V is primed to drive the burgeoning field of Intelligent General Computing. This emerging paradigm integrates AI and machine learning into everyday computing devices, from AI-enabled… Read More


Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V

Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
by Daniel Nenni on 12-25-2025 at 10:00 am

RISC V Summit 2025 David Patterson

In a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V Summit, computer architecture legend David Patterson took the audience on a captivating trip back to 1981, using scanned versions of his original overhead transparencies to recount the birth of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at UC Berkeley.

Patterson began with humor, noting… Read More


Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon

Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Google RISC V in Datacenter 2025

In an engaging presentation at a recent RISC-V summit, Martin Dixon, Google’s Director of Data Center Performance Engineering, took the audience on a metaphorical “road trip” to explore the company’s vision for integrating RISC-V into its massive warehouse-scale computing infrastructure. Drawing… Read More