Bolt wants to take on Nvidia by building a RISC-V graphics processor

Bolt Graphics is pressing ahead with its plan to challenge Nvidia and AMD by building a graphics processor around a RISC-V ...
EDN

Tensilica automates processor build from apps code

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Tensilica Inc., a pioneer of the configurable microprocessor, has added an automated front-end to its Xtensa LX range of processors that allows application code to drive the ...
Liliputing

Bit-Brick Cluster K1 lets you build a 32-core RISC-V computer (by clustering 4 SpacemiT K1 boards)

At least that’s the idea behind the Bit-Brick Cluster K1. Real-world performance will obviously vary depending on the task. But for applications that support parallel processing, this cluster board ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Optimize A Processor

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...
EDN

Building a personal workstation: CPU selection

In one of last month’s blog posts, I detailed the constituent hardware and software building blocks for a workstation computer I was planning on building…with one key omission. As I mentioned last ...