CHINESE RISC-V PROJECT TEASES 2025 DEBUT OF FREELY LICENSED ADVANCED CHIP DESIGN

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The Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xiangshan project aims to use the permissively licensed RISC-V ISA to create a high-performance chip. It has published the designs of its third-generation chip called Kunminghu, a 64-bit RISC-V architecture that supports multiple parallel processing units capable of integer, floating-point, and vector operations. The designs will be available under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, use, modify, or distribute.