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RISC-V chip designer SiFive closes an oversubscribed Series G round led by Atreides Management, with Nvidia and Apollo Global among the investors, to accelerate open-standard CPU development for agentic AI workloads.

Alibaba's Damo Academy has announced the XuanTie C950, a 5nm RISC-V CPU core capable of natively running hundred-billion-parameter language models, marking RISC-V's first serious entry into high-end AI computing.

Jim Keller's Tenstorrent unveils a $9,999 liquid-cooled workstation with four Blackhole ASICs, 480 Tensix cores, and a fully open-source software stack, shipping globally in Q2 2026.

Barcelona Zettascale Lab's Cinco Ranch TC1, a three-core RISC-V chip fabricated on Intel's 3nm process, has passed validation testing, marking a milestone in Europe's push for semiconductor sovereignty.