A developer used Anthropic's Claude AI to design a custom RISC-V processor, system-on-chip (SoC), and printed circuit board (PCB), demonstrating how large language models can assist in hardware design…
Beijing aims to add 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by year-end, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and I…
A developer is using large language models to automatically extract architectural parameters from the RISC-V specification, aiming to replace slow and error-prone manual reading. The approach involves…
Researchers have demonstrated the first low-power MCU-based edge device for Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), using a 9-core RISC-V processor (GAP8) and a QVGA ultra-low-power greyscale imag…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee outlined the city's strategy to become a superconnector in the age of AI at the SCMP China Conference, emphasizing AI as a central plank in its first five-year bluep…
Global cooperation on the RISC-V chip architecture remains resilient despite US-China tech rivalry, Alibaba vice-president Qi Xiaoning said at the South China Morning Post's China Conference 2026, not…
OXMIQ Labs, founded by former Intel chief GPU architect Raja Koduri, raised $35 million in Series A funding to scale its OxCore architecture, a licensable GPU core designed to run CUDA and PyTorch cod…
Naja-scope, an MCP server built on the najaeda netlist engine, lets AI agents explore SystemVerilog netlists without pasting source code. In a head-to-head test on the CVA6 RISC-V core, it achieved 17…
GCC 17 has landed support for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core, the first widely-available RVA23 profile compliant design, via -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting. The SpacemiT K3 SoC …
An engineer who writes backend systems shipped an SDK for a microcontroller without ever compiling it on the target chip's compiler. The code was tested only on a host compiler, and when built in the …
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire RISC-V AI chip startup Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, a move that would give Qualcomm Jim Keller's Blackhole silicon and an open-source inference stack. Th…
The Linux 7.2 kernel merge window has no new ARM64 KVM features, with developers attributing the lack to an overwhelming number of AI-fueled fixes flooding the mailing list. Other architectures like R…
A new paper-thin, flexible AI sticker sensor node called Ghost Edge has been developed, built around the Nordic Semiconductor nRF54L15 wireless SoC. The device uses a flexible printed circuit board to…
A team has built Aiden AI, a physical hardware AI agent device that connects as a standard USB HID device to control any computer without requiring software installation, API access, or permissions. T…
Epic Semi announced the Contrail Compute AIX, the first RISC-V AI execution platform, designed to run AI inference workloads on open-standard RISC-V architecture. The platform aims to provide a flexib…
Efinix has launched the Titanium Edge family of FPGAs for edge AI applications, based on soft or hard RISC-V cores with AI instruction extensions. The company's XLR logic cell dynamically reconfigures…
OpenCV 5.0 was released today as a major update to the open-source computer vision library, featuring a rewritten deep neural network engine and built-in support for large language and vision language…
Google launched Coral, a full-stack platform for edge AI that combines an AI-first hardware architecture with a unified developer experience to enable efficient, local AI processing. The platform prov…
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is developing custom central processing units (CPUs) to power its artificial intelligence infrastructure, as prices for chips from Intel and AMD have surged 10…
The DARE (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe) initiative, coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with 38 partners, is developing open-source chiplet processors for next-generation supe…