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RISC-V CPU runs The Witcher 3 at 15 FPS
By Christopher Harper published
A modern AAA game like The Witcher 3 can now run on RISC-V architecture, albeit with minimal performance.

RISC-V CPU arrives on a tablet starting at $149
By Jowi Morales published
The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II tablet uses the same SoC as the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II and could be upgraded with an Android 15 OS.

China's Unisoc launches 'world's first' open architecture RISC-V security chip
By Anton Shilov published
Unisoc launches RISC-V security chip, the E450R.

Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors
By Mark Tyson published
Extensive brain drain won’t help Intel bounce back.

SiFive sets the stage for 256-core RISC-V CPUs with P870-D core
By Anton Shilov published
SiFive unveils Performance P870-D, its highest-performance core yet, sets the stage for 256-core datacenter CPUs.

GhostWrite vulnerability exploits architectural bug in RISC-V CPU to gain root access
By Jeff Butts published
Researchers from Germany recently outlined a hardware flaw in two popular RISC-V CPUs that could grant attackers root access in less than a second.

Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86
By Jowi Morales published
Linus says RISC-V development will likely make the same mistakes that the x86 and Arm chips made during their development cycles.

RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system
By Christopher Harper published
RISC-V gets Hot Plugging support through version 6.11 of the Linux kernel.

RISC-V CPU comes to a mini-ITX motherboard
By Dallin Grimm published
Milk-V, a system integrator known for its work with RISC-V, has released the Milk-V Jupiter, a mini-ITX motherboard with a RISC-V processor preinstalled. Orders will open next week.

Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi's RISC-V 'supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip' touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs
By Anton Shilov published
InspireSemi's Thunderbird processor with 1,536 64-bit RISC-V cores promises CPU versatility and GPU-level parallelism.
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