On July 17, 2025, the 2025 RISC-V China Summit officially opened in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, China. Hu Zhenbo, the founder of Chiplet Technology, delivered a keynote speech titled “The Process and Outlook of RISC-V Commercialization IP” at the conference. The RISC-V Foundation was established in 2015, and Hu Zhenbo is one of the earliest individuals in … Read more
Last week, there were several significant acquisition cases in the semiconductor industry. The acquisitions by SMIC and Huahong are essentially about acquiring their joint venture assets to enhance performance, which does not strictly count as external mergers and acquisitions. The acquisition of Chipone by Chipright is the largest case in the IC design field recently. … Read more
RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles, first proposed by a research team at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. Its core design philosophy is to provide flexibility and autonomy in chip design through a modular and extensible instruction set, breaking the licensing restrictions … Read more
Click the blue text tag to see more exciting content of the same kind! Introduction: In the global chip market, there are two dominant chip instruction set architectures. One is the x86 architecture, led by Intel, which is commonly used in personal computer CPUs. The other is the Arm architecture, led by Arm, primarily used … Read more
Category Company Relevance Company Highlights Xuantie Preferred Allwinner Technology One of Alibaba’s Xuantie Preferred Partners Leader in domestic audio and video SoC main control chip field Guoxin Technology One of the leading enterprises in the industrial application of domestic embedded CPUs Runhe Software Subsidiary Runkaihong is one of Alibaba’s Xuantie Preferred Partners Core co-builder of … 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
This article is compiled by Semiconductor Industry Review (ID: ICVIEW) from semiwiki. The rise of RISC-V in the DPU field creates a rare opportunity to reshape the competitive landscape of the industry. Data centers are often seen as a battleground between CPUs and GPUs. However, behind this highly publicized competition, another quiet revolution is taking … 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
1. Event Brief Recently, the Dutch startup Axelera AI announced that it is in negotiations for a financing round exceeding 150 million euros (approximately 175 million USD). The funds will primarily be used to accelerate the research and development and market promotion of its edge AI chip platform. This negotiation has attracted continued attention from … Read more
As NVIDIA chips dominate the high-end robotics market, a Chinese chip company has opened a new competitive field with its unique technological route and strategic layout, using a RISC-V chip that costs only one-third of its competitors. This not only breaks free from bottlenecks but also firmly integrates into the Yushu supply chain with the … Read more