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Digital and software freedom/rights advocate from Slovenia, Europe. Also a member of the Pirate party. You can find me on Mastodon: @JRepin@mstdn.io avatar JRepin

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SpacemiT K3 – World's First RVA23 Standard AI CPU ( www.spacemit.com )

SpacemiT Key Stone K3 series chips adopt RISC-V isomorphic fusion computing technology, integrating SpacemiT's self-developed 8 high-performance computing cores X100 and 8 ultra-wide parallel computing AI cores A100, providing 130 KDMIPS general computing power and 60TOPS general AI computing power, and can run 30 billion ...

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow ( godotengine.org )

With the stability gained over the past five releases, the engine has matured enough to enter a new development phase. Godot 4.6 kicks off a period of polish, quality-of-life improvements, tighter integration of industry-standards, and doubled-down effort on performance optimization. ...

SpacemiT K3 16-core RISC-V SoC system information and (early) benchmarks ( www.cnx-software.com )

SpacemiT K3 is an upcoming RVA23-compliant 64-bit RISC-V processor based on X100 cores clocked at up to 2.5 GHz. So far, we had limited information, but SpacemiT gave remote access to one SpacemiT K3-powered server to Sander, and he was kind enough to share some system information and early benchmarks.

OASIS approves Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 Standard, marking 20 years of interoperable document innovation ( www.oasis-open.org )

Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organization’s highest level of ratification. ODF V1.4 improves developer documentation, adds new features, and maintains full backward compatibility. ...

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty ( opensource.org )

Europe is at a crossroads. The Summit on European Digital Sovereignty marks an important milestone for the EU and its member states in aligning on a shared strategy for achieving real and lasting European digital sovereignty. As the EU pursues the goal of digital sovereignty, we urge you to harness open source — that is, ...

Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles ( noyb.eu )

Despite heavy criticism from civil society and large parts of the EU Parliament, the EU Commission has now published its proposal for the “Digital Omnibus”. Contrary to the Commission's official press release, these changes are not “maintaining the highest level of personal data protection”, but massively lower ...

EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR ( noyb.eu )

As gradually leaked the last days by various news outlets, the EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to privacy and data protection. The reform would be part of the so-called "Digital ...

RISC-V takes first step toward international standardization as ISO/IEC JTC1 grants PAS Submitter status ( riscv.org )

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. ...

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To make this easier RISC-V has profiles (the latest being RVA23), which specify a base extension set. So software can target a specific profile, and CPUs advertises which profile they support (+ possible additional extensions). Regarding naming schemes, AMD and Intel are not so clear here either, so it would not be so much different :)

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Well for x86 software still needs to be testing if some instructions are supported dynamically if they want to take adventage of the latest ones. For example you still neeed to test for different versions of AVX or even older SSE versions, since not all the x86 CPUs support everything. In 2020 something similar to RISC-V profiles was also defined for x86: microarchitectural levels. And most software just is compiled for the lowest commonly supported set of x86 instructions, in essence x86-64-v1 or x86-64-v2, depends on the software or GNU/Linux distribution. Although recently some distributions started to provide additional higher levels of packages for programs that benefit most from the use of latest x86 instructions. And then glibc HWCAPS feature enables the system to load the most optimized binary of the appliation. For example see openSUSE Tumbleweed gains optional x86-64-v3 optimization.

Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech ( www.theregister.com )

One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics accelerator hardware. These are very unlike any conventional GPUs – or indeed anything else. ...

Easy RISC-V ( dramforever.github.io )

Inspired by Easy 6502 by Nick Morgan, this is a quick-ish introductory tutorial to RISC-V assembly programming. This tutorial is intended for those with a basic familiarity with low level computer science concepts, but unfamiliar with RISC-V. If you’re curious about RISC-V, I hope this will be a good start to your journey to ...