History and Future of RISC-V

History and Future of RISC-V

In 2010, the Berkeley research team aimed to design a CPU. However, Intel’s licensing for x86 was very strict, ARM’s instruction set licensing was expensive, and MIPS, SPARC, and Open Power also required their respective company licenses. With limited options, the Berkeley research team decided to start from scratch to design a new instruction set. … Read more

RISC-V: The Future Core of Technology

RISC-V: The Future Core of Technology

Click the blue text above to subscribe! 1 Last night, the news broke that ARM has suspended its cooperation with Huawei, yet major financial news outlets have collectively remained silent on the matter; the deeper meaning of this is left for you to interpret! Now, let’s talk about the ARM architecture. Currently, Qualcomm, Apple, and … Read more

Differences Between CPU, GPU, ASIC, and FPGA

Differences Between CPU, GPU, ASIC, and FPGA

In a previous article, we mentioned that the semiconductor chips in the industry are typically divided into digital chips and analog chips. Among them, the market size of digital chips accounts for a large proportion, reaching about 70%. Digital chips can be further subdivided into logic chips, memory chips, and microcontrollers (MCUs). We will introduce … Read more

Analysis of ARM’s New CPU/GPU Architecture: Who Will Launch First?

Analysis of ARM's New CPU/GPU Architecture: Who Will Launch First?

Whether you are a gaming enthusiast pursuing the ultimate experience or just an average computer user interested in consumer electronics, you may know that the 2019 Taipei Computer Show (Computex) is currently in full swing. Not only have AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA released their latest models of CPUs and graphics cards with significant performance leaps, … Read more

Interrupts vs Polling in Embedded Development

Interrupts vs Polling in Embedded Development

Follow+Star Public Account, don’t miss the wonderful content Source | Technology Makes Dreams Greater After a week of testing the waters, I’m ready to sit at home and code, and catch up on my writing. Just as I was focused on outputting, my wife interrupted me. The baby is crying, come quickly! There was a … Read more

Digital Circuit: Build a Computer from Scratch Tutorial

Digital Circuit: Build a Computer from Scratch Tutorial

At this time, some people worry about where to go for fun, some worry about not being able to buy tickets, some worry about not being able to book rooms, some worry about not having money to go out, and some are even worse… they don’t get a holiday at all. Last night I had … Read more

Understanding Automotive SoC: Key to Functional Safety

Understanding Automotive SoC: Key to Functional Safety

Welcome to follow the public account belowAbao1990, this public account focuses on autonomous driving and smart cabins, providing you with daily automotive insights. We start with cars but go beyond cars. ARM has launched a series of CPU architectures for autonomous driving that comply with automotive functional safety, namely A65AE, A76AE, and A78AE, where AE … Read more

How Much Performance Difference Between Phone CPU and PC?

How Much Performance Difference Between Phone CPU and PC?

Nowadays, mainstream mobile phone CPUs are quad-core and octa-core, and MediaTek has even started developing deca-core CPUs. As a result, many people believe that mobile phone CPUs can now rival computer CPUs. However, the performance of a CPU cannot be judged solely by the number of cores and clock speed. Below, I will compare the … Read more

Understanding APU, CPU, GPU, and SoC

Understanding APU, CPU, GPU, and SoC

In modern society, technology has entered everyone’s life, especially with the popularity of electronic products, where almost everyone has several smart devices. When it comes to smart devices, we must mention the chip, which is the foundation of the machine’s “intelligence”. When we purchase computers and smartphones, the chip is also a key focus. In … Read more