Hardware

This is an abridged version of 2026 RISC-V Market Report and Ecosystem Guide by the SHDgroup, provided at no charge thanks to the support of their sponsors. An unabridged version is also available with over 200 pages and comes with a spreadsheet containing over 300 tables of detailed information. In both versions, the intention is to provide a comprehensive examination of the rapidly expanding semiconductor market, including how it is evolving alongside the concurrent emergence of RISC-V and the influence of AI. The accelerating build-out of data centers for AI inferencing and training and Large Language Models (LLMs) is having a profound impact on semiconductor revenues worldwide. This impact extends to the adoption of the RISC-V ISA in an increasing number of SoCs aimed at including some level of AI functionality in the silicon solution. These impacts also extend to the Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) vendors as they look to accommodate the acceleration of the different Neural Networks being used and EDA Tool vendors as they look to infuse AI functionality into their EDA tools to aid the productivity of silicon designers.

This is to challenge the creativity of the computer lover.

Some pictures of a build from last year. I replaced a file server that was in reliable operation since 2007, seeing no hardware failures. Its purpose is to store file backups from the network. With only 4,5TB available, it was constantly getting full. It was also loud and power hungry, so I decided that the best option was a complete replacement. I hope the new one is as trouble free as the old!

(Sorry if I’m posting this in the wrong community!)

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RVA23 profile of RISC-V marks a turning point in how mainstream CPUs are expected to scale performance. By making the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) mandatory, it elevates structured, explicit parallelism to the same architectural status as scalar execution. Vectors are no longer optional accelerators bolted onto speculation-heavy cores. They are baseline capabilities that software can rely on.

…there is a way? What possible application/need would make this necessary/feasible? Sure, my M.2 drives run hot, especially when doing continuous I/O for prolonged periods, but… Maybe I’m just inexperienced. (:

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I disassembled an AMD CPU Wraith Cooler, meaning, I took the fan off of the heatsink, because I want to attach the fan on top of a Raspberry Pi that I’m using as a router. The Pi runs quite hot because it transmits several hundred megabytes per second, non stop, and I want to give it some cooling. (It already has its own heatsinks on its various chips inside the chassi and I don’t want to use the little shitty Okdo fan, because it’s loud.)

Just wanted to share a pretty sic “notebook kit” that I found at a thrift store. I didn’t buy it since I don’t need it (I’m carrying around an XTRFY M42 RGB PINK and a Deltaco WK90B TKL). But the fact that it even has RJ11 connectors just blew me away.

RISC-V is an industry standard, like USB or Wi-Fi. The specifications are publicly available under the Creative Commons license and every engineer, wherever they are in the world, can use them to design their products locally, while engaging with the global RISC-V ecosystem.

This article will show how to model sheets of Expanded Metal in FreeCAD, without slowing (or killing) FreeCAD.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34838045

An interesting aspect of the Lisuan Tech 7G106 is its Virtual GPU feature. It is a fully-featured single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) component, with up to 16 containers, which lets you share the GPU to virtual machines running on the same system, so that it can be used in containerized enterprise environments and hyperscalers.