London, England, and Shenzhen, China – 19 August 2020; Imagination Technologies and RIOS Laboratory have established a partnership, with Imagination opening up select GPU IP to the RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory (RIOS Lab). The collaboration supports PicoRio™, the first RISC-V development platform released by the RIOS Lab.
While the software ecosystem of RISC-V has evolved rapidly in the last decade, an important domain of applications, web applications, is still missing from the scene. At the heart of the web technology stack are web browsers, and every major web browser today uses JavaScript (JS) engines with Just-in-time (JIT) compilers. The lack of a mature JS engine that supports RISC-V is a major roadblock to enabling the web stack on RISC-V.
