Semiconductor News & Analysis Feed

While marketing initiatives promote an ultra-fast transition to wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, fully automated smart factories, and an all-electric automotive future, the sentiment across the PCIM Europe 2026 exhibition floor is more pragmatic. The industry has reached a transitional maturity wall where the realities of material physics, fragmented design silos, and macroeconomic supply shocks

Researchers at Georgia Tech continue to advance Vortex, an open-source RISC-V GPU project designed to support both graphics and compute workloads. The latest Vortex 3.0 release introduces major architectural enhancements, including a fixed-function graphics pipeline, Vulkan support, tensor computing improvements, and new scheduling capabilities. These additions expand Vortex beyond its original Op

By Kyle Belmonte Published: Jun 10 2026, 14:07 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Vortex VORTEX.CC.GATECH.EDU Georgia Tech released Vortex 3.0 on June 9, 2026, completing what may be the most capable openly synthesizable GPU in existence: a RISC-V-based design that now pairs a full fixed-function 3D graphics pipeline wit

Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 9 June 2026 at 06:02 AM EDT. Add A Comment The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design. Vortex continues to consist of an open-source simul