This was my first time attending CES in (significantly) more than a decade. 141,000 attendees visited 4,500 exhibitors in the too-close-to-the-New-Year event in Las Vegas. As with most tradeshows, there were two levels to my conversations with customers and partners: Reviewing the products in the b...

With strong initial reviews, the HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with pre-installed Ubuntu are in stock and available for purchase at Arrow.com. First launched in October, the Yocto-based Early Access edition of the HiFive Premier P550 sold out rapidly as developers eagerly embraced it to te...

In this blog, we’ll begin by introducing XNNPACK and exploring its current status on RISC-V platforms. Next, to bridge the technical gap for contributors, we will provide a step-by-step guide on integrating RVV-optimized microkernels into XNNPACK, using F32-GEMM (single-precision floating-point gene...

In June 2024, SiFive announced the 4th generation of its Essential Product line. Products from the Essential family are already deployed in billions of consumer and IoT products including smartphones, sensors, SSDs, FPGA platforms, surveillance cameras, smartwatches and more. This new release contai...

At the RISC-V Summit in North America this week, RISC-V International announced that the RVA23 Profile has been ratified. The fundamental objective behind RVA Profiles is to ensure software portability across hardware implementations.. This announcement reminded me of an important question that Krst...