Arm Just Became Its Own Customers' Competitor — And RISC-V Is Laughing
Arm spent 35 years selling blueprints. Then it decided to sell finished chips to the same companies it was supplying. Somehow this surprises people.
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Arm spent 35 years selling blueprints. Then it decided to sell finished chips to the same companies it was supplying. Somehow this surprises people.
GhostWrite lets unprivileged code write anywhere in physical memory on T-Head RISC-V chips. It cannot be patched. This was supposed to be the good architecture.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will be the first long-term release to ship RVA23 RISC-V as a first-class citizen. Is this the moment RISC-V stops being vaporware?
The ISA built by committee finally has a real LTS release coming — and the Framework Laptop already has a RISC-V mainboard. Maybe this one's different.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center taped out a RISC-V test chip on Intel 3, booted Linux on it, and quietly advanced Europe's bid for chip sovereignty.