www.buildmvpfast.com/blog/risc-v-... #ARM #Ethos-U85 #NPU = 4 TOPS at 1 GHz. 20% more energy-efficient than Ethos-U55/U65 generation, first ARM to natively support transformer operations (#MATMUL). Alif Semiconductor, Infineon, Renesas, Himax. But #RISC-V leads in raw speed, cost & flexibility.

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RISC-V vs ARM AI Edge Inference 2026 Comparison

RISC-V vs ARM for AI inference at the edge: RVA23 profile, NVIDIA Blackwell RISC-V cores, SiFive $400M raise, ARM Ethos NPU, licensing costs, and who wins in 2026.

The processed recordings of the three #CompArch B0B35LSP lectures I presented have been updated/reprocessed. I have spent considerable time fixing the blur, which makes the #QtRvSim #RISCV simulation sequences especially less readable. There have been more problems, mainly in the professional #BlackMagic setup at our university. Even after some reports and related fixes, there seems to be at least one frame missing in every 4k recordings, so there is no match between the number of frames, recording time, and frame rate. This results in the detection of the file as a variable frame rate one by #kdenlive and even other tools (i.e. commercial on colleague’s MacOS). This results in transcoding to proper 25fps during import. There is an option to choose that as lossless, but when I already have 50GB from the original 1.5-hour recording, then I cannot imagine what the size would be. So there is degradation, and when the project is FullHD, and I want to expand one quarter of the original https://youtu.be/pqW9_1t5Y5U 4k video, which is holding my presentation monitor and projector output to the whole FullHD screen, then it leads to practical half resolution. Even though I have spent time with full 4k processing, then final scale down to FullHD loads to interpolation and blur, even for the nearest pixel select option. I have solved the problem by extracting the top-right quarter of the input using ffmpeg with high-quality encoding, then I have imported this new screen file, added it to the timeline after the already edited lecture, and then done precise manual replacement/switch of both audio and video chains in the “*.kdenlive” file to place this extracted screen to all already edited chunks in the correct playlist. I have then even replaced the converted 25 fps sources with the problematic original ones and re-run rendering, with confirmation of a VBR warning about possible skew between audio and video. Quite a lot of time was spent on incorrect output from a professional and probably very expensive setup. I have never had such problems with #opensource #obsstudio when using my old Intel HD graphics-based laptop (I have objected to signing the NVIDIA NDA at the university and do not want to use their HW if at least a little possible) to capture and process FullHD 50 Hz and sometimes even 4k 25 Hz videos from abandoned 4k #DataVideo camera with uncompressed stream over HDMI and USB CamLink. I would expect that if the expensive HW producers provide full resources on how to update, correct, enhance, and replace SW and firmware in their products to the community, then it would save a lot of time for everybody.
dr. P. Píša: Logické systémy a procesory (B0B35LSP) – 14 [21. 5. 2026, LS 25/26]

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The RV32I port of Palo Alto Tiny Basic appears to be fully working. Feel free to have a look at it, I have included some examples: https://codeberg.org/alrj/rvtb

I wonder if it's worth the trouble to try and adapt it to RV32E. Are there even any real microcontroller that are only RV32E? And then, do they have enough memory to run Tiny Basic?

#riscv #basic #tinybasic #retrocomputing

SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX RISC-V Chassis Kit Review – Part 2: What works, what doesn’t in Bianbu OS 4.0

Last month, I received the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX Chassis Kit based on the company's K3 16-core RISC-V SoC, and started the review with an unboxing, a teardown, and a first boot to Bianbu OS 4.0. Since the system features a 10Gbps Ethernet SFP+ cage, I also had to order a 10GbE SFP+ to Copper adapter, as my 10GbE networking gear is exclusively based on RJ45 ports. In this review, I'll check system information in Bianbu OS 4.0.1, run a few benchmarks, test 10GbE, GbE, and WiFi 6 networking performance, play YouTube videos at various resolutions, run AI workloads (LLM), check all/most features work as expected, and measure the power consumption of the SpacemiT K3 "Pico-ITX Chassis Kit" mini PC. Bianbu OS 4.0 System Information Before running anything, I updated the system: 594 packages were updated. For reference, the update also involved updating the EC (Embedded Controller) firmware: Let's double-check the

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Notes for June 14–21

My back is still giving me trouble, but a week’s worth of moving about carefully and a little exercise “fixed” it (as in, I can stand again for extended periods of time). And I’ve (...)

#ai #hardware #llm #notes #riscv #weekly

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Pine64 Pinevoice – A $50 RISC-V Smart Speaker for Home Assistant based on Bouffalo Lab BL606P MCU

After over two years in the making, Pine64 has now launched the PineVoice (previously PineVox) smart speaker based on the Bouffalo Lab BL606P RISC-V wireless microcontroller with WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee radio interfaces. The device also features two microphones, a speaker, a USB 2.0 OTG port, volume buttons, a mute button with LED, a start/stop button, and four RGB LEDs. The PineVoice smart speaker is mainly designed to work with Home Assistant. PineVoice specifications: SoC - Bouffalo Lab BL606P CPU D0 core - T-Head C906 64-bit RISC-V (RV64IMAFCV) CPU @ 480 MHz M0 core - T-Head E907 32-bit RISC-V (RV32IMAFCP) CPU @ 320 MHz Memory - 544KB RAM (788KB SRAM listed on the Pine64 store), 16MB embedded PSRAM Storage - 128KB ROM, 4KB eFuse Wireless 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n 1T1R WiFi 4 Bluetooth 5.x Dual-mode (Classis + BLE) 802.15.4 radio (Zigbee) Storage -  128Mbit (16MB) SPI NOR flash Audio 2x

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Zhihe A210 is an octa-core RISC-V RVA23-compliant chip with GPU for 3D graphics and AI accelerator with up to 12 TOPS of INT8 performance. https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/17/zhihe-a210-octa-core-risc-v-soc-with-12-tops-npu-powers-som-based-development-board/ #RISCV #ZhiheA210

PineVoice smart speaker is now available for $50 (Home Assistant speaker with RISC-V processor and mic kill switch)

https://liliputing.com/pinevoice-smart-speaker-is-now-available-for-50-home-assistant-speaker-with-risc-v-processor-and-mic-kill-switch/

#Tech #SmartHome #RISCV

PineVoice smart speaker is now available for $50 (Home Assistant speaker with RISC-V processor and mic kill switch) - Liliputing

PineVoice smart speaker is now available for $50 (Home Assistant speaker with RISC-V processor and mic kill switch)

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PineVoice smart speaker is now available for $50 (Home Assistant speaker with RISC-V processor and mic kill switch)

More than two years after introducing a hacker-friendly smart speaker, Pine64 is now taking orders for its answer to the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod line of devices.

The PineVoice* smart speaker has a lot of the features you’d expect from mainstream models. But it’s powered by a RISC-V processor and designed to work with the open source Home Assistant platform rather than […]

#homeAssistant #pine64 #pinevoice #pinevox #riscV #smartSpeaker Read more: https://liliputing.com/pinevoice-smart-speaker-is-now-available-for-50-home-assistant-speaker-with-risc-v-processor-and-mic-kill-switch/

@europeanOSacademy

This is what the EU should do, require all hardware used in all levels of gov. be open hardware. An example of this is POSIX, the US Gov required POSIX on all operating systems they used.

If the EU could phase this in, the rest of the world would be in a better place. Their first focus, Nvidia :)

#OpenSource #TechSovereignty #OpenHardware #RISCV #Semiconductors #DigitalSovereignty #EUTech