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Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V

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 […]

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SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

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 […]