SiFive has unveiled an upcoming RISC-V developer board that the company says delivers the “highest performance” of any model currently on the market. The upcoming SiFive HiFive Premiere P550 is powered by an Eswin EIC7700 processor that combines four SiFive P550 CPU cores with a GPU, NPU, and support for PCIe Gen 3, among other things. […]
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Lilbits: SiFive shakeup, more Qualcomm announcements, and new Macs on the way
Earlier this month SiFive introduced the new Performance P870 RISC-V processor and Intelligence X390 neural processing unit. Like many of the company’s products, these are basically designs that other companies can license for their own RISC-V chips, but they might be some of the last pre-designed processor cores of this type from SiFive. According to industry […]
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Lilbits: SiFive Performance P870, an Intel Alder Lake-N NAS, and Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm
2 Comments on Lilbits: SiFive Performance P870, an Intel Alder Lake-N NAS, and Raspberry Pi OS BookwormOver the past year we’ve seen Chinese PC makers including Topton and AOOSTAR selling a mini PC that’s clearly designed for use as a file storage server. Not only does it have two M.2 2280 slots for solid state storage, but there’s also room for two 3.5 inch hard drives or SSDs. The first models […]
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SiFive HiFive Pro P550 dev board coming this summer with Intel “Horse Creek” RISC-V chip
7 Comments on SiFive HiFive Pro P550 dev board coming this summer with Intel “Horse Creek” RISC-V chipIntel is best known for its x86 processors, but last year the company announced it was teaming up with RISC-V chip designed SiFive to release a “Horse Creek” development board powered by a SiFive processor. Now the two companies have provided more details, including the official name and release time frame: the HiFive Pro P550 development […]
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SiFive launches P470 and P670 RISC-V processors with vector instruction support
RISC-V chip designer SiFive is introducing two new processors that the company says are designed for high-performance, energy-efficient applications such as wearables, smart home devices, virtual reality, or industrial automation. The new SiFive Performance P670 processor is basically an updated version of the existing P650… but with added support for RISC-V vector instructions for efficient processing […]
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Intel’s Horse Creek dev board features SiFive P550 RISC-V processor and 8GB RAM
The Intel “Horse Creek” developer board is compact computer board featuring 8GB of DDR5 memory, a PCIe 5.0 slot and SD card reader for storage, and support for Linux-based software. But while this is an Intel product, the heart of the system is a SiFive Performance P550 quad-core processor based on RISC-V architecture rather than […]
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Lilbits: Intel Arc graphics, stretchable display tech, and the resurgence of music CD sales
Comments Off on Lilbits: Intel Arc graphics, stretchable display tech, and the resurgence of music CD salesIntel’s integrated graphics technology has gotten pretty good in recent years, even coming close to giving NVIDIA’s entry-level MX series GPUs a run for their money. But Intel is just getting started – the company also expects to ship 4 million discrete GPUs this year, starting with discrete graphics solutions for laptops like the Acer Swift […]
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Intel invests $1 billion in third-party chip development, joins RISC-V International
Intel is probably best known as a company that designs and produces its own chips. But the company has also been investing heavily in its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) recently in hopes of taking on rivals like TSMC and Samsung by manufacturing chips for other companies. Now Intel has announced a new $1 billion fund […]
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Lilbits: Samsung could merge its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note smartphone families, Framework Laptop’s firmware goes open source, and more
2 Comments on Lilbits: Samsung could merge its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note smartphone families, Framework Laptop’s firmware goes open source, and moreRumors that Samsung would phase out its Galaxy Note line of smartphones have been making the rounds for years. But with recent Samsung phones adding S-Pen support, they’ve been picking up steam. Now Samsung is adding fuel to the fire by hinting that the new Galaxy S22 smartphone expected to launch in February will be […]
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Lilbits: RISC-V chips, foldable phones, troubleshooting OxygenOS, and more
Oppo may be the next company to introduce a foldable phone, and it looks… kind of familiar. Meanwhile, folks who installed the new Android 12 update on the OnePlus 9 may be experiencing issues and there’s a fix… it’s just not an attractive one. And the RISC-V Summit has drawn to a close, but this […]