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The US Department of Commerce recently announced a preliminary agreement to provide Microchip Technology with $162 million of federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. The...

Interview: SiFive is bullish about the chances of RISC-V, a new paradigm in open source hardware

At the 2022 RISC-V Summit, SiFive highlighted collaborations with some of the world’s biggest companies in our 10+ talks on stage and with our demos. ...

Microchip previewed its PolarFire 2 mid-range SoC FPGA family at the RISC-V Summit last month in two presentations including a keynote given by Bruce Weyer, the company’s Corporate VP for FPGAs. Although the company provided very few product details, it dropped many hints. So many hints, in fact, that I can give you the information…

SiFive is the first company to produce a chip implementing the RISC-V ISA. Theyve now been selected to provide the core CPU for NASAs next generation High-Performance Spaceflight Computing processor (or HSPC). HPSC is expected to be used in virtually every future space mission, from planetary ...

NASA will soon perform a significant upgrade to the systems employed in its spaceflight computers, adopting the RISC-V architecture developed and provided under open-source licenses. NASA selected...

San Mateo, Calif., September 6, 2022 - SiFive, Inc., the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, today announced it has been selected by NASA to provide the core CPU for NASA’s next generation High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor. HPSC is expected to be used in virtually every future space mission, from planetary exploration to lunar and Mars…

NASA partners with Microchip Technology to boost its spaceflight computing capabilities.

Chandler-based semiconductor giant Microchip Technology Inc. has won a $50 million federal contract to help develop the next-generation processor for spaceflight computing.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip Technology to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor with “at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.”