【Content Overview】An AI chip with only 22 nanometers and energy consumption as low as microjoules, designed specifically for always-on wearable devices and the Internet of Things. This is not just a technological iteration, but a reflection of the rise of the open architecture RISC-V. When such flexible and efficient technological innovations meet a national strategy … Read more
Comprehensive report from Electronic Enthusiasts Network,In modern data center architecture, the Data Processing Unit (DPU) is rapidly emerging as the third core chip following the CPU and GPU. The DPU is designed for data-intensive tasks, offloading inefficient workloads from the CPU, such as network virtualization, storage acceleration, and security encryption, thereby freeing up core computing … Read more
Back in 2010, during the process of technological exploration, a research team at the University of California, Berkeley found themselves in a dilemma. At that time, practitioners in the entire chip research field faced the same problem: the mainstream processor architectures, such as x86, had extremely complex instruction sets, which not only increased the difficulty … Read more
A wave of chip innovation based on open instruction sets is spreading globally, from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen, as tech companies compete for control over the future of the RISC-V architecture. In February 2025, Alibaba’s Damo Academy’s XuanTie team showcased its server-grade processor C930 at the Ecological Conference, achieving a high performance level of 15 … Read more
In the already tiresome topic of technological blockades, the US has come up with another bizarre move. However, this time it is purely for amusement. Just yesterday, a group of US Congress members began pressuring the Department of Commerce to restrict cooperation between Chinese and American companies on the RISC-V chip architecture. After reading this … Read more
In July 2025, at the RISC-V China Summit, NVIDIA’s Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Frans Sijstermans, declared, “We are porting CUDA to the RISC-V architecture,” which stirred a global wave in the AI computing field. This decision signifies that the CUDA platform, which has long supported only the proprietary x86 and ARM architectures, is now … Read more
RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA). Compared to other mainstream instruction sets like x86 and ARM, RISC-V’s core advantages lie in its complete open-source nature and royalty-free usage, allowing any enterprise or individual to freely use, modify, or extend its instruction set, significantly lowering the barriers to chip design. This enables China to … Read more
Building an Independent Ecosystem of “Chinese Chips + Chinese Systems” Author: Lin Fei, IT Times Reporter Editor: Wang Xin In May 2025, Huawei launched the MateBook Pro and Fold Extraordinary Master series PCs equipped with HarmonyOS, marking a gradual departure from the Windows system and entering the Harmony era. However, it is noteworthy that the … Read more
Arm has recently disclosed its product brand restructuring strategy, planning to provide self-developed chips to customers, while also mentioning its reliance on the Chinese market and the competitive risks posed by RISC-V.ARM has suddenly announced the abandonment of the Cortex brand, which it has used for twenty years. This once-arrogant British chip giant may indeed … Read more
Since the summer of 2010, the Berkeley research team has spent about four years designing and developing a complete new instruction set. This new instruction set is called RISC-V. From its official release in 2014, RISC-V has faced various doubts, but by 2017, the Indian government announced significant funding for RISC-V-based processor projects, making RISC-V … Read more