The Quiet Revolution of RISC-V and Why Open-Source Chips Are Poised to Disrupt the Processor Industry

In a year dominated by AI innovation, geopolitical chip tensions, and new form factors in computing, one of the most transformative shifts in the semiconductor world has been flying under the radar. RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”), an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is increasingly being viewed as the Linux of the chip world. As of mid-2024, a growing chorus of startups,[…]

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Why you should prefer AMD CPUs to Intel processors

In recent years, researchers have discovered a multitude of vulnerabilities in x86, POWER and even ARM processors. In most cases, these problems have been resolved, with the detriment of performance, through patches at the level of firmware or software that have mitigated or canceled possible damages. For example, Meltdown, a security vulnerability that affects a wide range of systems, including[…]

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