Enlarge (credit: ony Avelar/Bloomberg ) Many of Intel’s current woes can be traced to the fact that the company was left out of the iPhone. Whether Intel passed on the opportunity or couldn’t meet the spec is by now a moot point, but missing out on the particular smartphone revolution—and its billions of chips—played no […]
Enlarge / SiFive’s “Essential” family is stripped down to the minimal configurations and performance necessary for standard microcontroller duty. “Intelligence” adds AI/ML acceleration, and the new “Performance” family offers just what it says on the tin. (credit: SiFive) Today, RISC-V CPU design company SiFive launched a new processor family with two core designs: P270 (a […]
This overhead view of a BeagleV system shows off the CPU (center), 4x USB 3.0 ports (far left), gigabit Ethernet (top left), and 40-pin GPIO (bottom). [credit: Seeed ] Seeed Studios—the makers of the Odyssey mini-PC we reviewed back in August—have teamed up with well-known SBC vendor BeagleBoard to produce an affordable RISC-V system designed to […]
Micro Magic’s fresh CPU model is seen {} in an Odroid board. (charge: Micro Magic) Micro Magic Inc.–a tiny digital design company in Sunnyvale, California–has recently generated a prototype CPU that’s a lot more effective than world-leading opponents, while keeping reasonable raw functionality. We {} Micro Magic’s promises before this week, even when EE Times […]