Intel cuddles up to RISC-V
 

Starts a $1 billion fund

Chipzilla has announced a new $1 billion fund on February 7 to build a foundry innovation ecosystem and will collaborate with several RISC-V standard IC design firms.

Meanwhile, RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization, announced that Intel has made deep investments and joined RISC-V International at the Premier membership level.

The fund is a collaboration between Intel Capital and Intel Foundry Services (IFS) to prioritise investments in capabilities that accelerate foundry customers' time to market - spanning intellectual property (IP), software tools, innovative chip architectures and advanced packaging technologies, according to Intel.

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