RISC-V 2024 Update: RISE, AI Accelerators & More

RISC-V annual update, covering developments in RISC-V hardware and software including RISE, Quintaris, and AI accelerators. If you enjoy this video, my “RISC-V Week” video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na6PT4npsMg My review of the Lichee Pi 4A is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1apoFXZ9ad8 The video in which I edited video on RISC-V hardware is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ke7d0iO_-0 And my 2023 RISC-V update is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJVSZEX6d9M All of my RISC-V SBC and other RISC-V videos are also listed on this page: https://www.explainingcomputers.com/riscv_videos.html Links to the websites/sources included in the video (in order of appearance) are as follows: RISC-V International “About”: https://riscv.org/about/ RISC-V on GitHub: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual Business Wire “Five Leading Semiconductor Industry Players Incorporate New Company, Quintauris, to Drive RISC-V Ecosystem Forward”, December 2023. Available at: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231222688764/en/Five-Leading-Semiconductor-Industry-Players-Incorporate-New-Company-Quintauris-to-Drive-RISC-V-Ecosystem-Forward Quintaris website: https://www.quintauris.eu/ Linux Foundation Europe: “Industry Leaders Launch RISE to Accelerate the Development of Open Source Software for RISC-V”, May 2023. Available at: https://linuxfoundation.eu/newsroom/rise-project-launches-to-accelerate-development-of-risc-v RISE: RISC-V Software Ecosystem: https://riseproject.dev/ Canonical “Industry Leaders Launch RISE to Accelerate the Development of Open Source Software for RISC-V”, November 2023. Available at: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-joins-rise RISC-V International blog post on RISC-V Labs, November 2023. Available at: https://riscv.org/blog/2023/11/accelerating-the-open-source-software-ecosystem-with-risc-v-labs/ RISC-V Developer Board Program, RISC-V International blog post November 2023: https://riscv.org/risc-v-developer-boards/ RISC-V Certifications & Courses: https://riscv.org/certifications-and-courses/ The SHD Group: “RISC-V Market Report: Application Forecasts in a Heterogeneous World”, January 2024. Available via: https://theshdgroup.com/market-reports/ Andes Technology Press Release “Andes Technology’s N25F RISC-V Processor Enables Superior Performance and Low Power for Phison’s X1 Enterprise SSD Controller”, April 2023. Available at https://www.andestech.com/en/2023/04/25/andes-technologys-n25f-risc-v-processor-enables-superior-performance-and-low-power-for-phisons-x1-enterprise-ssd-controller/ Tom’s Hardware, “Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Launches PCIe Gen5 SSD Controller Based on RISC-V”, November 2023. Available at: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/chinese-tech-giant-alibaba-launches-pcie-gen5-ssd-controller-based-on-risc-v Ventana “Ventana Introduces Veyron V2 — World’s Highest Performance Data Center-Class RISC-V Processor and Platform”, November 2023. Available at: https://www.ventanamicro.com/ventana-introduces-veyron-v2/ Esperanto AI Products: https://www.esperanto.ai/products/ Esperanto AI News: https://www.esperanto.ai/news/ Meta “MSVP: Meta’s first ASIC for video transcoding”, May 2023. Available at: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-scalable-video-processor-MSVP/ Meta “MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator”, May 23 2023. Available at: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/ Tech Radar “Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried”, December 2023. Available at: https://www.techradar.com/pro/meta-has-done-something-that-will-get-nvidia-and-amd-very-very-worried-it-gave-up-on-gpu-and-cpu-to-take-a-risc-y-route-for-ai-training-and-inference-acceleration Codasip “RISC-V Summit report: Meta leads the way for custom processors”, December 2023, available at: https://codasip.com/2023/12/18/risc-v-summit-report-meta-leads-the-way-for-custom-processors/ Sipeed Lichee Series web pages: https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a Google Open Source Blog, “Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready”, October 2023. Available at: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/10/android-and-risc-v-what-you-need-to-know.html Qualcom “Qualcomm to Bring RISC-V Based Wearable Platform to Wear OS by Google”, October 2023. Available at: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/10/qualcomm-to-bring-risc-v-based-wearable-platform-to--wear-os-by- More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingTheFuture Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 Advancing RISC-V 04:02 RISC-V Progress 06:40 Enterprise RISC-V 09:39 End-User RISC-V 12:53 Exciting Times #RISC-V #RISE #ExplainingComputers