This association mistakenly suggests that "x86 versus ARM" can be classified neatly into "CISC versus RISC," with x86 being CISC and ARM being RISC. Thirty years ago, this was true. It's not true ...

Akeana, a well-funded, 150-strong configurable RISC-V processor startup came out of stealth mode earlier this month to challenge the ‘status quo’ of the semiconductor industry, hoping to unseat both ...

The Power architecture doesn’t get the attention it deserves. With Power5 servers finally shipping, even non-Big Blue shops should take look again If all things were equal and IBM made its systems as ...

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...

The developers of Ubuntu are also eagerly programming for computers with processor cores with the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture. However, the new version of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing ...

The Fedora Linux project is “jumping on the RISC-V train,” joining other Linux distributions in supporting the emerging CPU ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the gold standard for RISC-V computing, today announced that the company has partnered with Kinara to create a USB-based enablement ...

The LDRA tool suite automatically analyzes shared memory, cache resource access, coherency issues, and measures worst case execution time to guarantee deterministic execution time for RISC-V ...

Open source developers are building an emulator called felix86, which allows you to run x86-designed software on RISC-V processors, and they recently showed off some AAA games being played through ...

WIRRAL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LDRA today announced that the LDRA tool suite now supports the hardware-based, multicore mitigation capabilities of RISC-V processors such as Microchip, Synopsys and ...