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RISC-V: the Linux of chips

A recently released study from the Wilson Research Group reports that nearly a quarter of ASIC and FPGA chip designs during 2020 tapped open-source RISC-V technology, flagging it as one of the top trends in compute.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Mar. 11, 2021Mar. 12, 2021Leave a comment on RISC-V: the Linux of chips

Apple M1 DTK reviews roundup

The Apple Mac with the company’s M1 chip has now been in the hands of developers for several months, and software is increasingly being ported to the new hardware. So how’s that going?
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Mar. 5, 2021Mar. 5, 2021Leave a comment on Apple M1 DTK reviews roundup

Rust’s rapid rise signals shift to collaborative open-source software

Created just a decade ago, “Rust” is a modern programming language aimed at performance and safety — especially for applications requiring safe concurrency.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 23, 2021Mar. 12, 2021Format QuoteLeave a comment on Rust’s rapid rise signals shift to collaborative open-source software

More than 180 billion Arm chips have shipped

During its third fiscal quarter of 2020, Arm and its silicon partners shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, resulting in a total of more than 180 billion Arm chips having now shipped.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 11, 2021Feb. 11, 2021Leave a comment on More than 180 billion Arm chips have shipped

Chip industry snapshot: record sales, production shortfalls

Global semiconductor sales rose 6.5 percent while the U.S. share dropped precipitously last year, according to a report recently released by the Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 4, 2021Feb. 4, 2021Leave a comment on Chip industry snapshot: record sales, production shortfalls

Meet software dev’s latest crush: Kubernetes

A recent survey reports that the vast majority of software development teams expect to use microservices and containers in 2021, to advance the speed, efficiency, and flexibility of their software development tools and applications.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Feb. 1, 2021Feb. 1, 2021Leave a comment on Meet software dev’s latest crush: Kubernetes

Raspberry Pi Foundation bakes its own chip

The hacker-friendly Raspberry Pi foundation has cooked up its own, homegrown silicon: the RP2040 SoC. What’s more, the company is selling a tiny, $4 “Raspberry Pi Pico” module based on the new chip, aimed at DIYers and gizmo developers.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 27, 2021Jan. 27, 2021Leave a comment on Raspberry Pi Foundation bakes its own chip

Popular apps go native on Apple Silicon

Zoom, Microsoft, Google, Linux, and popular Open Source apps such as VLC have recently debuted native support for Apple Silicon (aka M1).
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 24, 2021Jan. 25, 2021Leave a comment on Popular apps go native on Apple Silicon

Semiconductor market stays strong despite Covid

The worldwide semiconductor market grew by 7.3 percent to $450 billion in 2020, following a 12 percent decline in 2019, says Gartner.
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 19, 2021Jan. 19, 2021Leave a comment on Semiconductor market stays strong despite Covid

Chips on top at CES 2021

On the heels of a slew of exciting CES 2021 IC news, TSMC, the world’s top contract IC maker, says it plans to grow its capital investments nearly 50 percent in 2021 to a whopping $28 billion, due to exploding demand for “advanced chips.”
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Author Jill RatkevicPosted on Jan. 18, 2021Jan. 19, 2021Leave a comment on Chips on top at CES 2021

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  • RISC-V: the Linux of chips Mar. 11, 2021
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