Hackaday

A RISC-V Operating System Instruction Manual

To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working on embedded systems and other low-power applications. To others it’s necessary, abstracting away hardware so that ...
Electropages

HFI BIOS to Create POST-Like Boot Screen for RISC-V

A new open-source firmware project aims to give RISC-V systems a familiar BIOS-style startup experience, helping bridge one ...
Geeky Gadgets

RISC OS alternative operating system hits Kickstarter

A new Kickstarter project has launched this month, looking for backers to help build a power saving computer operating system and push RISC OS to more hardware platforms. German developer Stefan ...
Opinion

RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet

Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative, or HFI for short, is simple and appealing ...
Hackaday

Raspberry PI 4 Now Supported By Risc OS In Latest Update

Students of ARM history will know that the origins of the wildly popular processor architecture lie in the British computer manufacturer Acorn (the original “A” in “ARM”). The first mass-market ...
9to5google

Google and Qualcomm working on RISC-V chip for Wear OS

RISC-V is an open-source alternative to ARM and x86 that’s getting a big boost today with a Google-Qualcomm partnership to develop a “RISC-V Snapdragon Wear platform that will power next-generation ...
TechSpot

Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Wear OS-based wearable devices

Highly anticipated: After betting on the future of RISC-V with an industry-wide alliance, Qualcomm is now bringing its first chip based on the open-source architecture to the mass market. The American ...

RISC-V Market Projected to Quadruple by 2032, Driven by Open-Standard Architectures

The RISC-V market is set to expand significantly from over USD 1.31 billion in 2026 to more than USD 4.85 billion by 2032, a ...
EDN

RISC-V migration to mainstream one startup at a time

As noted by Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid, the migration to RISC-V is in full flight. Kleiner Perkins, along with Fidelity and Mayfield, is a backer of RISC-V upstart Akeana, which has ...
Gizmochina

World’s First RISC-V Laptop Roma Officially Delivered: 8GB RAM and Pre-installed with Domestic OS

The Roma laptop was developed by Deep Digital Intelligence and debugged by Jianshi Technology. It is a collaborative project spearheaded by the RISC-V Foundation. The laptop is designed to provide ...
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 ...