Open Hardware: MIPS/RISC and Beyong
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On the first day of Christmas, MIPS sent to me: An open-source-ish alternative to RISC-V
AI biz Wave Computing on Monday told the world it intends to open source the latest MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA) in the hope that fosters the development of more RISC-based custom chips.
The outfit acquired MIPS, the fabless CPU design firm that had been sold twice before since 2013, back in June with the intention of using its well-established processor tech for running AI code on IoT devices at the edge of the network.
Wave said under its MIPS Open Initiative, participants – who will be required to register – will have access to the 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS ISA at no charge, without any licensing or royalty fees. The key thing here is instruction set: the machine-code language your, for instance, C source compiles down to. It's how the chip interfaces with software. It's not how the insides of a processor works.
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Western Digital SweRVs Towards Open Source with New RISC-V Core, ISS, and Cache Coherency
Is open source changing the way we manage data? Western Digital, a data storage device company, switched to RISC-V's open-source ISA (instruction set architecture) a year ago. This month, they announced a series of open-source, collaborative initiatives that aim to make data more open, from processor cores to memory caches.
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Western Digital, a company best known for data storage devices, is one of the companies in the growing RISC-V environment. One year ago, they announced that they were moving to RISC-V. Now, they're doubling down on their commitment to this open source architecture, aiming to facilitate new innovation and help lead the charge into the future of data processing and, eventually, data storage.
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The End of Industrial Automation (As We Know It)
At present, much embedded software (even if it originates in open source) includes many proprietary elements. For security reasons, today it’s increasingly important to update embedded software, but sadly this is often difficult or impossible to do. As a result, cybersecurity has become a chronic problem for embedded systems, especially in the consumer electronics segments. This creates other problems, too. Applications are inflexible. The operating systems and software tool chains are fragmented. Development speed is slow. Hardware/software integration remains problematic. And worse, there's a relatively small base of experienced embedded system software developers.
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China looks to private capital, open source technology for global tech game advantage
China is racing against time to establish its own technological intellectual property, particularly in the semiconductor industry. The moves come amid growing pressure on Chinese tech companies overseas, underscored by the recent arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and punitive measures by the US on Huawei rival ZTE.
This time around, China appears to be taking a more discreet approach, pursuing more low-profile strategies rather than eye-popping, state-led partnership initiatives such as the National Integrated Circuit (IC) Industry Investment Fund, which was set up in 2014 and raised RMB 138.7 billion ($20.1 billion) in its initial phase.
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