With building self-reliance for the chip industry becoming one of its top priorities, China plans to promote open-source RISC-V chips nationwide for the first time, according to Reuters. The policy could be issued as soon as this month, the report suggests. Eight government bodies, including Chin...

Samsung’s new head of its foundry business, Han Jin-man, stated last week that the semiconductor giant will work on a "two-track strategy" aimed at closing the technology gap with TSMC and countering competition from followers, such as China's SMIC. Now, to further secure its leadership on legacy ...

Recently, the Future Chip Innovation Research Institute of Xiong'an New Area was officially established in Hebei, China. According to the official Wechat account of "Xiong'an New Area," the Future Chip Innovation Research Institute of Xiong'an New Area was jointly founded by the RISC-V Working Co...

On May 16, Japanese foundry startup Rapidus announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with American RISC-V architecture chip design company, Esperanto. The two sides will collaborate on the research and development of AI semiconductors for data centers, aiming to jointly develop l...

In the global landscape of self-developed chips, the industry has predominantly embraced the Arm architecture for IC design. However, Meta's decision to employ the RISC-V architecture in its self-developed AI chip has become a topic of widespread discussion. It is said the growing preference for RI...