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Keysom and Chipflow discuss the Future of RISC-V in Automotive: Progress, Challenges, and What’s Next

Keysom and Chipflow discuss the Future of RISC-V in Automotive: Progress, Challenges, and What’s Next
by Admin on 04-10-2025 at 6:00 am

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by, Tomi Rantakari CEO ChipFlow & Luca Testa COO Keysom

The automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by electrification, the rise of new market players, and the rapid adoption of emerging technologies such as AI. Among the most significant advancements is the growing adoption of RISC-V, an open-standard… Read More


Vision-Language Models (VLM) – the next big thing in AI?

Vision-Language Models (VLM) – the next big thing in AI?
by Daniel Nenni on 03-27-2025 at 6:00 am

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AI has changed a lot in the last ten years. In 2012, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were the state of the art for computer vision. Then around 2020 vison transformers (ViTs) redefined machine learning. Now, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are changing the game again—blending image and text understanding to power everything… Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. Thang Tran of Simplex Micro

CEO Interview with Dr. Thang Tran of Simplex Micro
by Daniel Nenni on 03-18-2025 at 10:00 am

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Dr. Thang Tran is an innovator in modern computing, drawing inspiration from pioneers like Seymour Cray, Thornton, and Tomasulo. His work leverages the simplicity of the RISC-V ISA to advance microprocessor efficiency, integrating vector processing and scoreboarding principles foundational to early supercomputing. Thang… Read More


RISC-V’s Privileged Spec and Architectural Advances Achieve Security Parity with Proprietary ISAs

RISC-V’s Privileged Spec and Architectural Advances Achieve Security Parity with Proprietary ISAs
by Jonah McLeod on 03-12-2025 at 6:00 am

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Because of its open and modular nature, RISC-V has faced recognizable security challenges stemming from fragmentation, performance inefficiencies, and inherent vulnerabilities. Fragmentation across implementations leads to inconsistencies, making it difficult to enforce uniform security measures. Performance… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More


Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs

Webinar: Unlocking Next-Generation Performance for CNNs on RISC-V CPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 02-13-2025 at 10:00 am

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The growing demand for high-performance AI applications continues to drive innovation in CPU architecture design. As machine learning workloads, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), become more computationally intensive, architects face the challenge of delivering performance improvements while maintaining… Read More


An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2

An Open-Source Approach to Developing a RISC-V Chip with XiangShan and Mulan PSL v2
by Jonah McLeod on 02-13-2025 at 6:00 am

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As RISC-V gains traction in the global semiconductor industry, developers are exploring fully open-source approaches to processor design. XiangShan, a high-performance RISC-V CPU project, combined with the Mulan Permissive License v2 (Mulan PSL v2), represents a community-driven, transparent alternative to proprietary… Read More


2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics

2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
by Daniel Nenni on 02-06-2025 at 6:00 am

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Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am the Chief Sales Officer and I lead the global sales team and drive the overall sales process.

Semidynamics was founded 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 IP sales and started… Read More


CEO Interview: With Fabrizio Del Maffeo of Axelera AI

CEO Interview: With Fabrizio Del Maffeo of Axelera AI
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2025 at 6:00 am

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Fabrizio Del Maffeo is the CEO and co-founder of Axelera AI, the Netherlands-based startup building game-changing, scalable hardware for AI at the edge. Axelera AI was incubated by the Bitfury Group, a globally recognised emerging technologies company, where Fabrizio previously served as Head of AI. In his role at Axelera AI,… Read More


Relationships with IP Vendors

Relationships with IP Vendors
by Daniel Nenni on 11-21-2024 at 10:00 am

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An animated panel discussion Design Automation Conference in June offered up a view of the state of RISC-V and open-source functional verification and a wealth of good material for a three-part blog post series.

Parts One and Two covered a range of topics from microcontroller versus more general-purpose processor versus running… Read More