The core objective of chip architecture exploration is to find the optimal hardware architecture solution for specific workloads under given constraints of power consumption, performance, area, and cost. Traditional methods, which heavily rely on experience and simulation, are gradually being replaced by automated and intelligent methods based on big data and artificial intelligence. 1. Domestic … Read more
1. Introduction: Strategic Positioning and Development Background of RISC-V in the Field of AI Computing1.1 Overview and Technical Characteristics of RISC-V ArchitectureRISC-V (Reduced Instruction Set Computer – Fifth Generation) is an open-source and free instruction set architecture that is becoming an important choice for native computing architectures in the AI era. This architecture was developed … Read more
ăđ„ Edge AI Highlightsă 1. Community Expert Achieves: Raspberry Pi 5 Runs Llama 3 (8B) at 10 tokens/sec! Hot posts on Hacker News show that developers have successfully run the 8 billion parameter Llama 3 model on Raspberry Pi 5 using community-optimized quantization frameworks (such as GGUF Q4_K), achieving a speed of 10 tokens/sec in … Read more
â This is a record written by someone presentâa RISC-V idealist, traversing the path between two startups. He once illuminated the free fantasies of a group of people with a few development boards, and after finishing a cigarette on the balcony late at night, silently folded the group. We are not just talking about him. … Read more
In the “brain” of smart home devices, a chip from Allwinner Technology is likely running quietly. This low-profile Chinese chip design company has become an indispensable “invisible champion” in the AIoT ecosystem with its smart voice chip’s 30% market share. Behind the precise voice responses of Xiaomi’s smart speakers, the agile obstacle avoidance of Ecovacs’ … Read more
From the motor control of a small robot vacuum to the domain control of autonomous vehicles, an inconspicuous MCU (Microcontroller Unit) serves as the “nerve center” of all smart devices. For decades, this field has been dominated by international giants such as Renesas, NXP, and STMicroelectronics, leaving domestic manufacturers to struggle in the mid-to-low-end market. … Read more
In a global semiconductor IP market dominated by ARM and Synopsys, which hold over 66% of the market share, a Chinese company has risen to the eighth position in the world over the course of twenty years, becoming the only Chinese enterprise among the top ten. In August 2025, Chipone Technology announced plans to acquire … Read more
Box64 version v0.3.8 has been released, and this version includes a significant number of compatibility fixes for the RISC-V backend, allowing Linux Steam to run stably (finally)! As seen in the demonstration video, the Steam UI still experiences some lag, primarily because the Steam UI is based on Chromium , which incurs significant performance loss … Read more
Recently, Synaptics launched a new multimodal Gen AI processor designed for smart IoT edge applications. This new SoC, as the first product in the Astra SL2600 series multimodal Gen AI processors, targets the edge market that requires simultaneous processing of visual, audio, speech, and sensor data. This product is said to represent a new category … Read more
When you swipe your phone on the subway or pay with a bank card, the smart cards (SIM cards, UnionPay cards) behind the scenes are silently protecting data security. Now, the core supporting these smart cardsâthe RISC-V processorâfinally has a national-level “security protection manual.” The “White Paper on Security Technology for Smart Card Processor Cores … Read more