Adding custom extensions means taking ownership of both hardware design and the corresponding software toolchain.

Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch ...

Debian 13 has arrived, now with RISC-V and preconfigured "blends" right in the main installer.

Debian 13 "trixie" release brings RISC-V support plus to the popular GNU/Linux distro, plus thousands of other updates ...

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The submission, made late in the Linux 6.17 merge window, aimed to introduce new features for RISC-V. However, Torvalds decisively rejected the pull request, citing two ...

RISC-V International asks vendors to voluntarily disclose usage, but does not compel such disclosure. For that reason, "It'll be hard to see concrete evidence" of the extent of RISC-V usage, said ...

RISC-V, which was born a decade ago in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, an academic effort of professors David Patterson and Krste Asanović, is basically the Linux of ...

RISC-V is an instruction set architecture for processors that offers innovative operational mechanisms. Learn about its background and the advantages it brings.

So Krste Asanovic (a founder of SiFive), Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee, and David Patterson created RISC-V. They built their first chip in 2011. In 2014, they announced it and gave it to the community.

HiFive Unmatched: RISC-V Development Ready At $665, the HiFive Unmatched from SiFive isn’t a mainstream single board PC or hobbyist curiosity.