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Recent RISC-V coverage is centered on rapid CPU performance gains, new open-source graphics capabilities (a RISC-V GPU with a 3D pipeline), and expanding Linux distribution support via Fedora 44 images and a new “Omni” kernel. There’s also momentum around making RISC-V single-board computers more usable with Wi‑Fi support on newer Linux versions.

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Key Takeaway The biggest signal is that RISC-V is accelerating both in performance and in practical software readiness, from GPU pipelines to Fedora 44 kernel support and workable Wi‑Fi on boards.

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CPU performance growth Linux distro/kernel support

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The biggest signal is that RISC-V is accelerating both in performance and in practical software readiness, from GPU pipelines to Fedora 44 kernel support and workable Wi‑Fi on boards.

Recent RISC-V coverage is centered on rapid CPU performance gains, new open-source graphics capabilities (a RISC-V GPU with a 3D pipeline), and expanding Linux distribution support via Fedora 44 images and a new “Omni” kernel. There’s also momentum around making RISC-V single-board computers more usable with Wi‑Fi support on newer Linux versions.

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

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Top 1 signals · The biggest signal is that RISC-V is accelerating both

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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 “The biggest signal is that RISC-V is accelerating both” story

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

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

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

Briefing Findings · The biggest signal is that RISC-V is accelerating both

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

GPU pipeline feature Vortex 3.0 adds a 3D pipeline

Fedora release Fedora 44 RISC-V images released

Fedora kernel name Includes a new “Omni” kernel for broader RISC-V hardware support

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Watch for follow-up updates around Vortex 3.0 as the open-source RISC-V GPU’s 3D pipeline evolves. Phoronix
Monitor adoption of Fedora 44 RISC-V images and “Omni” kernel across more RISC-V hardware. Phoronix

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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

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The Year of RISC-V in a laptop TechTechPotato 13h ago Andes Technology Interview at RISC-V Summit Europe 2023 RISC-V International 7d ago

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Hacker News · u/mrLSD-dev · 7d 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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