CNET

AMD's SSE5 ends the old RISC vs. CISC debate

Remember how I said that Moore's Law is "the full-employment act for computer pundits"? In the smaller niche of microprocessor journalism, there used to be another topic that was always good for a ...
Ars Technica

AMD chips RISC or CISC?

I was just wanting to know if anyone can tell me if the new athlon mp and xp's are risc chips or if they went to cisc. I know the older AMD chips were all RISC, but not sure of the newer ones. When ...
Design-Reuse

RISC vs CISC: What's the Difference?

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
EDN

The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...
Design-Reuse

Is your career at RISK without RISC-V?

I am delighted to share my technical insights into RISC-V in this article to inspire and prepare the next generation of chip designers for the future of the open era of computing. If you understand ...
Geeky Gadgets

Synopsys unveils innovative RISC-V ARC-V processor IP for next-gen chip design

If you’re closely following the semiconductor space, you will be pleased to know that Synopsys, Inc. has made a significant announcement this week. With the introduction of the new RISC-V ARC-V ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Extend The ‘Unscalable’ RISC Architectures

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable. This blog was really quite interesting and made some very ...
Business Wire

SiFive Raises RISC-V Performance Bar with New Best-in-Class SiFive Performance P650 Processor

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, today announced the availability of the SiFive Performance™ P650 processor, the new range-topping member ...
New Electronics

Bluespec’S MCUX RISC-V processor enables implementation of custom instructions and accelerators

Bluespec’s new MCUX RISC-V processor has been designed to make it easier for developers to implement custom instructions and add accelerators to FPGAs and ASICs. The MCUX is an extension of Bluespec’s ...