Matthew Stephens, co-founder and CEO of Impact Nano, brings over 20 years of experience commercializing advanced materials. Prior to co-founding Impact Nano, Matt was VP Sales and Products at Air Liquide Advanced Materials and held C-level leadership roles at Voltaix and Metem. Matt has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University… Read More
Tag: risc-v
Vision-Language Models (VLM) – the next big thing in AI?
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
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
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
RISC-V Summit Europe 2025
The RISC-V Summit Europe is the premier event that connects the European movers and shakers – from industry, government, research, academia and ecosystem support – that are building the future of innovation on RISC-V.
RISC-V, the open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is enabling a range of new applications and… Read More
Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
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
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
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
Podcast EP273: An Overview of the RISC-V Market and CAST’s unique Abilities to Grow the Market with Evan Price
Dan is joined by Evan Price, Product Manager for embedded processors at CAST. Evan has had a diverse and successful 15-year career developing, then leading as project manager and director, with a variety of semiconductor-based products. Evan joined CAST in 2024 and provides technical support as well as handling product marketing… Read More
2025 Outlook with Volker Politz of Semidynamics
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