This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it

AMD’s K6 range drew heavily from the Nx686 design and when launched in 1997 mounted a serious challenge to Intel's Pentium ...
The Register on MSN

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more

Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does The final version of HPE's own flavor of Unix, HP-UX 11i v3, is now out of support. It is the end of a line that started in 1982.… ...
Business Wire

proteanTecs and Akeana Announce Joint Initiative to Drive Next-Generation RISC-V Processor Performance

HAIFA, Israel & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--proteanTecs®, a global leader in deep data solutions for electronics health and performance monitoring, and Akeana, a provider of high-performance ...
Digi Times

RISC-V reaches data-center tier in China with StarFive's 'Lion Rock' breakthrough

China's AI server vendors are accelerating their shift toward self-developed architectures, bringing RISC-V from edge devices into data-center workloads. StarFive Technology has entered this space ...
The Next Platform

Condor Technology To Fly “Cuzco” RISC-V CPU Into The Datacenter

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and ...
InfoQ

Optimizing Custom Workloads with RISC-V

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
Forbes

RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. For decades, chip architectures have been dominated by a pair of ...
HotHardware

NVIDIA Confirms CUDA Support Is Coming To RISC-V And It's A Huge Deal

Old-timers might recall the idea of "RISC" as a once-upon-a-time processor design ideology. RISC processors were mostly used for servers from Sun Microsystems, DEC, and other companies of a bygone era ...
TechSpot

Nvidia unlocks CUDA for RISC-V processors, opening up its AI ecosystem

What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...
Digi Times

China accelerates RISC-V localization with new Shanghai research hub

China is ramping up its RISC-V ambitions with the launch of the Shanghai Open Source Computing Research Institute, unveiled at the 5th RISC-V Summit China on July 17, 2025. As the country's second key ...
CoinDesk

Risc Zero’s 'Boundless' Incentivized Testnet Goes Live

Boundless, the decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) compute marketplace powered by RISC Zero, has launched its incentivized testnet (which it is calling “Mainnet Beta”) on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer ...
Seeking Alpha

Arm Holdings: Premium Valuation At Risk With China's RISC-V Gambit And Hardware Pivot

Arm’s low growth rates in China could be due to the growing adoption of RISC-V, which is supported by the Chinese government. China’s support for RISC-V is bearing fruit with the introduction of the ...