These binary sequences form the chip’s fundamental vocabulary, known as the computer’s instruction set. For years, the chip industry has relied on a variety of proprietary instruction sets.

The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now ...

Arm is RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) based, while x86 is CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing). Arm’s CPU instructions are reasonably atomic, with a very close correlation between ...

Computer scientists created RISC-V at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010. (It’s pronounced “risk-five,” with the letters standing for “reduced instruction set computer.”) ...

At its core, RISC-V (Reduced Instruction Set Computing, “V” version) is an open-standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). In simpler terms, ...

The instruction set might have been small, but the implications were massive. The ARM V1, the first chip of its kind when it was first tested in 1985, had only 27,000 transistors compared to the ...

Patterson then did as aspiring academics do: He wrote a spicy paper. Called “The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer” and published in 1980, it set off a great war of architectures.

RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on the established principles of reduced instruction set computing (RISC).

Rivos Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, has secured more than $250 million in fresh early-stage funding.The company raised ...