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South Korean startup XCENA raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation for its MX1 CXL memory device, betting AI's real bottleneck is memory, not compute.

Reports say Qualcomm is examining a full acquisition of Tenstorrent, the RISC-V AI accelerator startup led by Jim Keller, at a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion.

At the Ubuntu Summit, SpacemiT showed its 16-core Key Stone K3 running Ubuntu responsively, with a Banana Pi board priced at roughly twice a Raspberry Pi 5.

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.

LLVM 22.1, released February 24, introduces production-ready Distributed ThinLTO, C2y Named Loops in Clang, LLDB WebAssembly debugging, and support for Intel Nova Lake and Arm C1 processors.

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.

Google's seven-year open-source hardware security project reaches production in Dell Chromebooks with post-quantum cryptography, and data center deployment planned for later this year.

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.

LLVM 22.1 landed on March 11 with distributed ThinLTO, C2y named loops and defer, Armv9.7-A assembly, and AMD Zen 4 optimizations as the toolchain removes Google NaCl.

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.