Ars Technica

16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes

Our ability to continuously shrink the features of our silicon-based processors appears to be a thing of the past, which has materials scientists considering ways to move beyond silicon. The top ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Directory

ARM9T Core The ARM9T family defines a set of RISC cores that are optimized to minimize cost and power dissipation. The family builds around the ARM9 Thumb architecture, a full ARM ISA also capable of ...
Electronic Design

16-Bit USB Controllers Push Memory/Performance Limitations

Packing a 16-bit RISC processor core into a USB controller eliminates many memory and processor performance limitations and keeps power consumption low. This lets the controllers handle more of the ...
EDN

16/32-Bit RISC Flash Microcontroller

The RM48Lx30 is a high performance microcontroller family for safety systems. The safety architecture includes Dual CPUs in lockstep, CPU and Memory Built-In Self Test (BIST) logic, ECC on both the ...
Ars Technica

16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes

Only 32 die sites on a 150 mm wafer, that's a huge sucker. Cool stuff but definitely a science fair project at this point. Very low switching rates and very low gate density - doesn't look it will be ...