SiFive is pioneering a new model in the semiconductor business and to do so has raised $ 8.5 million in a second round of funding, led by Spark Capital. San Francisco-based SiFive is on a mission to democratize access to custom silicon chip designs. The company’s founders invented RISC-V, a free and open instruction set […]
Tag: Microprocessors
Understand Microprocessors By Looking at This Beautiful Blinking 'Megaprocessor'
GIF: Centre for Computing History Pretty much everything that’s great about technology today is thanks to the microprocessor. Billions of them are manufactured every year and they are one of the many reasons you can read this fine website. But few people understand what’s going on inside that little integrated circuit. Here’s a crash course. […]
