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India's homegrown Aries 3.0 board has an onboard Vega CPU
By Christopher Harper published
India launches a RISC-V powered Aries v3.0 development board for roughly the equivalent of $20 USD. It's powered by a 32-bit, 100 MHz CPU with 256KB of SRAM.

Chinese chipmaker tapes out 16-core DragonChain-powered CPU, 64-core coming
By Anton Shilov published
Loongson tapes out the 16-core/32-thread LS 3C6000 CPU, preps 32-core and 64-core processors.

China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
By Anton Shilov published
Chinese Academy of Sciences builds 256-core Zhejiang 'Big Chip,' looking towards wafer-scale chips .

RISC-V hardware ecosystem sees strong industry support with the establishment of Quintauris
By Matthew Connatser published
Qualcomm and four other semiconductor companies have jointly formed Quintauris, which is dedicated to enabling next-generation RISC-V hardware development.

RISC-V handheld gaming system announced
By Anton Shilov published
Sipeed unveiled its Lichee Pocket 4A handheld gaming platform, using a RISC-V processor and running Debian Linux.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 now works with RISC-V CPUs
By Anton Shilov published
AMD enables support for its latest graphics cards on RISC-V platforms with new Linux driver patch.

Russia pivots to Chinese CPUs that aren't subject to US sanctions — Russia's homegrown Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch chips
By Anton Shilov published
Russian Alt Linux ported to Loongson's LoongArch64 architecture to properly support LS5000 and LS6000 processors.

Chinese Company Develops 64-Core RISC-V CPU With American Company's Core Design as US Sanctions Loom
By Anton Shilov published
SophGo's SG2380 and SG2044 are based on SiFive's technology.
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