Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 13 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Harvard's "Critical and Emerging Technologies Index" report ranked 25 countries across five sectors — AI, semiconductors, biotech, space and quantum. While the U.S. dominates in all sectors, its lead is at risk. [The semiconductor sector deep-dive starts on page 21 of the 71 page report.] Micron Technology plans to expand its U.S. investments to approximately $150 billion in domestic memor... » read more

RISC-V’s Increasing Influence

By Brian Bailey - 12 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

The industry is increasingly talking about benefits brought by the RISC-V architecture, but is it even the right starting point? While it may not be perfect, it may provide the flexibility necessary to move forward gradually. Computer architectures and software have followed in the footsteps of processors developed 80 years ago. They aimed to solve sequential, scalar arithmetic problems usin... » read more

Towards Base-Station-On-Chip: Wireless Communication Kernels On A RISC-V Vector Processor (TU Dresden, CeTI)

By Technical Paper Link - 10 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Towards a Base-Station-on-Chip: RISC-V Hardware Acceleration for wireless communication" was published by researchers at TU Dresden and Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI). Abstract "The evolution of 5G and the emergence of 6G wireless communication systems impose higher demands for computing capabilities and lower power consumption in the... » read more

Open-Source RISC-V Cores: Analysis Of Scalar and Superscalar Architectures And Out-Of-Order Machines

By Technical Paper Link - 05 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Ramping Up Open-Source RISC-V Cores: Assessing the Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, Università di Bologna and Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria. Abstract "Open-source RISC-V cores are increasingly demanded in domains like automotive and space, where achieving high instructions per cycle (IPC) throu... » read more

Closing The RISC-V Verification Disconnect

By Larry Lapides - 29 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

With the explosive adoption of RISC-V processors, processor verification has become a hot topic. This is due both to the criticality of the processor IP in the SoC and to the fact that many experienced SoC verification engineers are doing their first processor verification project. While there are similarities between SoC verification and processor verification, there are also significant diffe... » read more

Open-Source And Royalty-Free Confidential Computing For Embedded RISC-V Systems (IBM, Max Planck)

By Technical Paper Link - 20 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "ACE: Confidential Computing for Embedded RISC-V Systems" was published by researchers at IBM Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). Abstract "Confidential computing plays an important role in isolating sensitive applications from the vast amount of untrusted code commonly found in the modern cloud. We a... » read more

Embedded GPU: An Open-Source And Configurable RISC-V GPU Platform for TinyAI Devices (EPFL)

By Technical Paper Link - 14 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "e-GPU: An Open-Source and Configurable RISC-V Graphic Processing Unit for TinyAI Applications" was published by researchers at EPFL. Abstract "Graphics processing units (GPUs) excel at parallel processing, but remain largely unexplored in ultra-low-power edge devices (TinyAI) due to their power and area limitations, as well as the lack of suitable programming... » read more

Comparisons of HW Versus SW Implementation of Warp Level Features in Vortex RISC-V GPU (Georgia Tech, IIT)

By Technical Paper Link - 11 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Hardware vs. Software Implementation of Warp-Level Features in Vortex RISC-V GPU" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Abstract "RISC-V GPUs present a promising path for supporting GPU applications. Traditionally, GPUs achieve high efficiency through the SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data) programming model. Ho... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 02 May, 2025 - Comments: 0

Check out the Inside Chips podcast for our behind-the-scenes analysis of changes at Intel Foundry. Intel rolled out its updated process technology roadmap this week, along with early process design kit (PDK) for its 14A gate-all-around process technology. That node will utilize high-NA EUV, and include direct contact power delivery, the second generation of its backside power delivery techno... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 18 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

[Podcast version is here.] TSMC said it will produce 30% of its leading-edge chips in Arizona when all six of its fabs are operational, a total investment of $165 billion, Axios reported. In its latest SEC filing, the foundry said it continues to add capacity in Taiwan, Arizona, Japan, and Germany. The Trump administration launched a Section 232 investigation into semiconductors and relat... » read more

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