While semiconductor design intellectual property (IP) is a $9.45 billion market, it acts as the absolute architectural bottleneck for the entire global semiconductor value chain. The choices made at the IP layer today dictate the cost, power, and security of a downstream technology economy rapidly marching toward a trillion… Read More
RISC-V Summit China 2026 will take place from October 18 to 20, 2026 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center (Futian). As an important annual gathering for global open hardware and the RISC-V ecosystem, this Summit will bring together leading scientists, core architects, industry executives, technology developers,… Read More
RISC-V has evolved from a Berkeley research architecture into a global instruction-set standard spanning embedded controllers, application processors, accelerators, and emerging servers. Its defining technical characteristic is not merely openness, but disciplined modularity. Four ratified base ISAs—RV32I, RV64I,… Read More
Hot Chips 2026, formally the thirty-eighth Symposium on High Performance Chips, arrives at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium from August 23 through 25 with a program that captures a decisive shift in computer architecture. Peak arithmetic throughput remains important, but the conference is increasingly about system balance:… Read More
AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go from specification to a High Level Synthesis (HLS) model, to a RTL model. The reason for using a HLS model is to gain much more simulation… Read More
Daniel is joined by David Kravitz, Senior Principal Engineer at SiFive, the pioneer of the RISC- V computing revolution. A veteran silicon architect with decades of experience designing high-performance processors ranging from VAX and Alpha to MIPS and ARM, David led the team behind some of the most critical breakthroughs in… Read More
By Thang Tran, CEO of Simplex Micro and Umesh Sisodia, CEO of CircuitSutra
Performance models have a reputation problem. They’re often treated as a long-lead, high-effort undertaking — something a design team commits to early and then waits on for months before it’s useful. The development of SimplEx Micro’s… Read More
When considering best-fit applications for RISC-V, the appeal of extending the instruction set and competitive pricing for storage and edge applications has been pretty clear. But I have always struggled to understand the appeal in head-on competition with Arm in premium applications such as servers and infrastructure systems.… Read More
As semiconductor complexity accelerates across AI, automotive, and edge computing markets, SoC architecture has become a critical determinant of commercial success. Modern silicon programs must simultaneously achieve aggressive performance-per-watt targets, support evolving workloads, and maintain manageable development… Read More
The semiconductor industry has experienced several defining transitions over the last three decades. We moved from single-core to multicore processors, from ASIC-centric designs to IP-based SoCs, and from monolithic integration to heterogeneous architectures. Today, another transition is underway, one that may ultimately… Read More
