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Coverage is focusing on RISC-V momentum across performance, graphics, and software support—highlighting a major CPU performance leap, a new open-source RISC-V GPU software stack, and expanding Linux support via Fedora. There’s also attention on maker boards getting more complete Linux functionality and on RISC-V benefiting from broader AI/computer-vision optimizations.

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Key Takeaway RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware performance, but also in GPU software and expanding Linux support for real devices.

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CPU performance gains Linux distro support

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RISC-V GPU software AI/vision optimizations

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RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware performance, but also in GPU software and expanding Linux support for real devices.

Coverage is focusing on RISC-V momentum across performance, graphics, and software support—highlighting a major CPU performance leap, a new open-source RISC-V GPU software stack, and expanding Linux support via Fedora. There’s also attention on maker boards getting more complete Linux functionality and on RISC-V benefiting from broader AI/computer-vision optimizations.

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Top 2 signals · RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware

CNX Software · 6h ago

OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

Phoronix · 1d ago

Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

Broader RISC-V coverage

Other RISC-V activity — not part of the “RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware” story

Phoronix · 23h ago

Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

Phoronix · 2d ago

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2

Phoronix · 19h ago

RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3

Briefing Findings · RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware

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CPU performance claim RISC-V CPU performance up 8x in five years (SiFive HiFive Unmatched vs SpacemiT K3)

Linux version for boards BeagleV and Lichee Pi 4a expected to get working WiFi with Linux 7.2

OpenCV optimizations OpenCV 5 adds a new DNN engine with Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

What to Watch

Watch for Linux 7.2 getting WiFi working on BeagleV and Lichee Pi 4a boards. Phoronix
Follow Fedora 44’s RISC-V image rollout and "Omni" kernel support across broader RISC-V hardware. Phoronix

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OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations CNX Software
Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support Phoronix

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CNX Software · 1 article

OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

Broader RISC-V coverage · not part of the RISC-V is seeing rapid progress not just in hardware story

Phoronix · 1 article

Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

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Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware.

More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2

In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel.

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2

In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree 'DT' changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel

RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3

Recently I published some initial SpacemiT K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 SoC with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer.

Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design.

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Phoronix 4 articles

Tracking: RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3 / Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3 Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

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Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2

CNX Software 1 article

Tracking: OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

OpenCV 5 release – New DNN engine with enhanced ONNX and LLM/VLM support, Intel, Arm, and RISC-V hardware optimizations

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Hacker News · u/mrLSD-dev · 8d ago

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What’s Up with RISE?

So what’s this impressive list of RISC-V movers and shakers actually doing with RISE? The RISE Project focuses on commercial product readiness, key for the adoption of RISC-V technologies in market segments such as mobile, datacenter, consumer electronics, datacenter and automotive. RISE's mission is to accelerate the development of open source software for the RISC-V architecture. Members share a roadmap, technical contributions, staffing and funding for critical projects across a wide set of project categories, such as compilers and toolchains, debug and profiling, Linux distribution integr

Rising to the challenge of RISC-V software readiness

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