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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Technology
Asharq Al-Awsat

In Shift to New Era, Wave Computing Adopts RISC-V Chip Architecture

Desi Banatao, CEO of Wave Computing, explains the company's chip design technology, in Menlo Park, California, US, March 31, 2022. (Reuters)

Silicon Valley's Wave Computing said on Tuesday it is launching designs for two new microprocessors this year using RISC-V architecture as it sunsets its once-popular MIPS architecture.

The move adds to growing momentum for RISC-V, an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) and emerging rival to proprietary architecture from Britain's Arm, the semiconductor technology firm owned by SoftBank Group Corp.

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