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RISC-V Articles & Reviews

RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC   Software   2026-07-02
RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3   Processors   2026-06-09
Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX   Processors   2026-05-20
Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5   Processors   2026-02-02
Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM   Computers   2025-04-23
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance   Computers   2025-03-06
How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years   Operating Systems   2025-03-03
Benchmarking The First RISC-V Cloud Server: Scaleway EM-RV1 Performance   Cloud   2024-05-14
RISC-V Performance On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS With Scaleway's EM-RV1   Operating Systems   2024-05-08
StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks   Computers   2023-08-16
SiFive RISC-V Sees Some Performance Improvements On Ubuntu 22.04   Operating Systems   2022-06-03
SiFive HiFive Unmatched Hands-On, Initial RISC-V Performance Benchmarks   Computers   2021-09-24
SiFive Helping To Teach Kids Programming With RISC-V HiFive Inventor Coding Kit   Computers   2021-01-18
SiFive Is Launching The Most Compelling RISC-V Development Board Yet   Motherboards   2020-10-29
The New Features Of Linux 4.15: AMDGPU DC, RISC-V, EPYC Benefits, VR Improvements   Software   2017-11-26

RISC-V Linux & Open-Source News

Linux 7.3 Deprecates Many Older 32-bit ARM Platforms, Orphans Hundreds Of Drivers   Arm   2026-08-19
Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins   Hardware   2026-08-17
Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core   GNU   2026-08-12
QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements   Virtualization   2026-08-11
PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs   Programming   2026-08-07
Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App   Free Software   2026-08-02
NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility   BSD   2026-08-01
Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library   Programming   2026-08-01
Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization   Virtualization   2026-07-30
GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options   GNU   2026-07-26
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations   GNU   2026-07-25
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3   Free Software   2026-07-24
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements   LLVM   2026-07-23
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2   Multimedia   2026-07-23
UXL's oneDNN 3.13 Preps For Intel Nova Lake With AVX10.2, More Intel Optimizations   Intel   2026-07-18
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain   Programming   2026-07-17
Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520   Hardware   2026-07-16
Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"   Linux Kernel   2026-07-12
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build   RISC-V   2026-07-12
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V   Free Software   2026-07-12
Linux 7.2-rc2 Released: "Things Look Very Normal"   Linux Kernel   2026-07-05
Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores   RISC-V   2026-07-04
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2026-07-01
GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting   GNU   2026-06-30
Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System   Arm   2026-06-29
"So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2   Virtualization   2026-06-24
QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS   Operating Systems   2026-06-24
Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default   RISC-V   2026-06-23
AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: "Substantial Design Changes" For AMD Audio   AMD   2026-06-19
Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2   Hardware   2026-06-19
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling   Linux Kernel   2026-06-12
Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V   Red Hat   2026-06-12
Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds   RISC-V   2026-06-10
Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline   Hardware   2026-06-09
Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support   Fedora   2026-06-08
BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2   RISC-V   2026-06-08
OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support   Free Software   2026-06-06
Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features   Ubuntu   2026-06-05
More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2   RISC-V   2026-06-05
Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6   Linux Kernel   2026-05-30
Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes   Debian   2026-05-16
NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate   BSD   2026-05-13
IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support   Hardware   2026-05-12
Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware   Operating Systems   2026-05-06
VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder   Multimedia   2026-05-02
With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM   Arm   2026-04-27
LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1   Hardware   2026-04-25
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0   Ubuntu   2026-04-23
Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1   Hardware   2026-04-23
Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware   Hardware   2026-04-22
QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves   Virtualization   2026-04-22
Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11   Linux Gaming   2026-04-20
Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs   Hardware   2026-04-16
Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel   Linux Kernel   2026-04-12
Trisquel 12.0 Released For Free Software Foundation Endorsed Distribution   Free Software   2026-04-12
RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1   RISC-V   2026-04-11
More SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC Functionality Expected For Linux 7.1   RISC-V   2026-04-10
SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers   RISC-V   2026-04-09
RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up   RISC-V   2026-04-09
RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time   RISC-V   2026-04-07
NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing   BSD   2026-04-06
Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users   Phoronix   2026-03-31
RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations   LLVM   2026-03-30
OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs   Intel   2026-03-24
Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board   Hardware   2026-03-19
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V   Operating Systems   2026-03-17
ARM NEON Accelerated CRC64 Optimization Shows Nearly 6x Improvement   Linux Kernel   2026-03-17
Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds   RISC-V   2026-03-10
NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing   BSD   2026-03-06
Armbian 26.02 Released: New Boards, Powered By Linux 6.18 LTS & RISC-V Xfce Desktop   Operating Systems   2026-03-02
Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February   Phoronix   2026-03-01
Verisilicon DC8200 & Coreboot Framebuffer Drivers Sent To DRM-Next For Linux 7.1   Linux Kernel   2026-02-28
Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2026-02-27
NXP Posts New Linux Accelerator Driver For Their Neutron NPU   AI   2026-02-26
OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes   Linux Storage   2026-02-25
LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements   LLVM   2026-02-24
LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0   Linux Kernel   2026-02-18
KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS   Virtualization   2026-02-18
RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly   RISC-V   2026-02-16
OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards   Hardware   2026-02-16
Linux 7.0 Scheduler Updates Land Time Slice Extension, Performance & Scalability Work   Linux Kernel   2026-02-10
Linux 7.0 Bringing Mainline Support For The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC, Qualcomm Kaanapali   Hardware   2026-02-10
GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3   GNU   2026-02-09
A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 7.0   Linux Kernel   2026-02-08
NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation   BSD   2026-02-07
Ubuntu To Support The SpacemiT K3 As One Of The First RISC-V RVA23 SoCs   Ubuntu   2026-02-05
Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf   Programming   2026-02-02
Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short   RISC-V   2026-02-02
RISC-V User-Space Control Flow Integrity / Shadow Stack Appears Finally Ready   RISC-V   2026-01-30
Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5   GNU   2026-01-29
Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere   Programming   2026-01-28
Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance   Programming   2026-01-27
GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel   Operating Systems   2026-01-23
Patches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems   Intel   2026-01-20
OpenBLAS 0.3.31 Released With New Extensions, RISC-V & ARM64 Optimizations   Programming   2026-01-16
GlobalFoundries Acquires Synopsys ARC Processor IP, To Be Integrated Into MIPS   Hardware   2026-01-14
Linux 7.0 To Focus Just On Full & Lazy Preemption Models For Up-To-Date CPU Archs   Linux Kernel   2026-01-14
Hangover 11.0 Released: Wine + FEX/Box64 Pairing For Windows x86 Apps On ARM64 Linux   WINE   2026-01-13
LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support   LLVM   2026-01-13
Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes   Linux Kernel   2026-01-12
Linux Lands Safeguard For RISC-V Against Another Microarchitectural Attack Vector   RISC-V   2026-01-11
Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors   RISC-V   2026-01-09
Linux Patches Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updating From Non-x86 Systems   Intel   2026-01-08
Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD   Operating Systems   2026-01-06
Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable   Linux Gaming   2026-01-03
NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink   NVIDIA   2026-01-01
Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025   Phoronix   2026-01-01
X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson   X.Org   2025-12-30
Linux 6.19-rc3 Released With A Holiday's Week Of Fixes   Linux Kernel   2025-12-28
Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary   Linux Kernel   2025-12-27
Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025   NVIDIA   2025-12-26
Qualcomm's Xqci RISC-V Extension Now Deemed Non-Experimental For LLVM 22   LLVM   2025-12-24
GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features   GNU   2025-12-20
LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For Debian 14   Debian   2025-12-20
Newer RISC-V CPUs Vulnerable To Spectre V1 - Linux Mitigation Patches Posted   RISC-V   2025-12-18
Intel ISPC 1.29 Drops Gen9 GPU Targets, Add New Optimizations & Experimental RISC-V   Intel   2025-12-18
LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16   Linux Kernel   2025-12-13
New Patches Lay Out Linux Kernel Adjustments For RISC-V RVA23 Hardware   RISC-V   2025-12-12
Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Specialists At Ventana Microsystems   RISC-V   2025-12-11
Linux 6.19 For RISC-V Brings Parallel CPU Hotplugging, Zalasr Ratified ISA Support   RISC-V   2025-12-09
Tenstorrent Blackhole Support & Other New RISC-V + ARM64 Hardware In Linux 6.19   Hardware   2025-12-06
Features Expected For Linux 6.19: ASUS Armoury, Many Intel Bits, AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Enhanced   Linux Kernel   2025-11-30
Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements   Linux Kernel   2025-11-23
RISC-V Testing Lapse Resulted In Wrong MIPS RISC-V Vendor ID Landing In Linux 6.18   RISC-V   2025-11-22
Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu   Ubuntu   2025-11-20
Xen 4.21 Released With AMD CPPC & Resizable BAR Support   Virtualization   2025-11-19
Mainline Linux Patches For The VisionFive 2 Lite: RISC-V For As Little As $19.9 USD   RISC-V   2025-11-14
Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: "Small And Boring"   Linux Kernel   2025-11-09
Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust   Programming   2025-11-04
Devuan 6.0 Released For Debian 13 Without systemd   Debian   2025-11-03
Linux 6.18 Kernel Happenings, Python 3.14, NTFSPLUS & Other October Highlights   Phoronix   2025-11-01
ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC   RISC-V   2025-10-23
Linux 6.19 To Enable Networking For The EIC7700 SoC Powering The SiFive Premier P550   Linux Networking   2025-10-21
Initial Tenstorrent Blackhole Support Aiming For Linux 6.19   AI   2025-10-20
Box64 0.3.8 Brings DynaCache As Disk Cache For Generated Native Code From x86_64   Linux Gaming   2025-10-13
Ubuntu 25.10 Released With GNOME 49, Linux 6.17 & Other Upgrades   Ubuntu   2025-10-09
Linux 6.18 RISC-V Default Kernel Builds To Support Front Panel Shutdown/Reboot Buttons   RISC-V   2025-10-08
KVM Virtualization Sees Several Exciting Improvements For AMD & Intel In Linux 6.18   Virtualization   2025-10-08
Linux 6.18 IOMMU Changes For Intel, AMD, Apple & RISC-V   Hardware   2025-10-04
Linux 6.18 Device Tree Prepares For Arm C1 Nano / Pro / Premium / Ultra CPUs   Arm   2025-10-03
Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"   Linux Kernel   2025-10-02
SiFive Premier P550, Apple M2 Pro/Max/Ultra DTs & Other SoC Changes For Linux 6.18   Hardware   2025-10-02
Signed Programs & Other BPF Changes Merged For Linux 6.18   Linux Kernel   2025-10-02
Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans   RISC-V   2025-10-01
Intel Linux Setbacks, Linux Kernel Drama & Other Q3 Highlights   Hardware   2025-09-30
RISC-V With Linux 6.18 Brings Support For MIPS Vendor Extensions   RISC-V   2025-09-29
Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18   Linux Kernel   2025-09-28
The oneAPI Construction Kit Drops Support For Vulkan   Intel   2025-09-28
Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization   Ubuntu   2025-09-26
Features Expected For Linux 6.18: File-System Improvements, Sheaves, New Drivers & More Perf   Linux Kernel   2025-09-26