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Canonical
8 April 2025

Ubuntu developer images now available for OrangePi RV2: a low-cost RISC-V SBC

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Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is excited to announce the availability of Ubuntu developer images for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single board computer (SBC). We’re delighted to add this latest piece of hardware to our Ubuntu developer ecosystem, where our RISC-V partners build their own Ubuntu images, as we’re...

Canonical
8 April 2025

Edoardo Barbieri
28 March 2025

The State of Silicon and Devices – Q1 2025 Roundup

Article Ubuntu

Welcome to the first quarterly roundup on the State of Silicon and Devices by Canonical. Q1 has seen lots of announcements in the areas of Edge AI and cybersecurity. Companies across the semiconductor and software ecosystem are pushing toward more powerful, energy-efficient AI models at the edge, while simultaneously...

Edoardo Barbieri
28 March 2025

Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms

Article Canonical announcements

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU...

Canonical
25 March 2025

Canonical
6 March 2025

Canonical to collaborate with Renesas to accelerate innovation in Enterprise AI

Article Canonical announcements

London, UK – Mar 6, 2025 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation, a global leader in semiconductor solutions, has joined Canonical’s silicon partner program to deliver cutting-edge solutions tailored to meet the growing demands of edge computing and AI applications. As...

Canonical
6 March 2025

Canonical
4 March 2025

Certification as a strategy: How Ubuntu & SystemReady boost hardware competitiveness

Article Partners

Canonical and MediaTek enhance reliability, accelerate market entry and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for ODMs through Ubuntu Certified Hardware and Arm SystemReady programs The hardware ecosystem is evolving rapidly, presenting a continuous challenge in ensuring that new hardware is market-ready and meets...

Canonical
4 March 2025

Canonical
10 December 2024

SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical announce availability of Ubuntu on the HiFive Premier P550

Article Canonical announcements

We are pleased to announce that SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical are enabling Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a development platform that offers a premium RISC-V development experience, an important milestone for the RISC-V development community. This collaboration ensures that developers who purchase...

Canonical
10 December 2024

Canonical
14 October 2024

Canonical at RISC-V Summit North America 2024

Article Silicon

The RISC-V Summit North America is a premier annual event that brings together the global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, ecosystem and special interest groups who define the architecture’s specifications. All the experts will meet in Santa Clara, California, to share technology breakthroughs,...

Canonical
14 October 2024

Canonical
1 August 2024

Canonical Partners with Microchip to Bring Ubuntu to Microchip’s PIC64GX RISC-V® MPUs

Article Silicon

In an exciting development for the community of open-source and edge computing, Canonical has partnered with Microchip to bring Ubuntu to PIC64GX RISC-V® microprocessors (MPUs). The PIC64GX is a 64-bit Linux® Operating System (OS)-capable processor series designed to address intelligent edge computing needs. The...

Canonical
1 August 2024

Canonical
28 May 2024

Canonical enables Ubuntu on Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V SBC

Article Canonical announcements

May 28th, 2024 – Canonical announced that the optimised Ubuntu 24.04 image is available for Milk-V Mars, the first credit-card-sized high-performance RISC-V Single Board Computer (SBC) delivered by Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd. RISC-V, a new paradigm in silicon development Open standards and collaboration are...

Canonical
28 May 2024

Felicia Jia
16 April 2024

Canonical presence at Qualcomm DX Summit @Hannover Messe

Article Internet of Things

At the world’s leading industrial trade fair, companies from the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and digital industries as well as the energy sector will come together to present solutions for a high-performance, but also sustainable industry at Hannover Messe. This year, Qualcomm brought its DX Summit to...

Felicia Jia
16 April 2024

Canonical
11 April 2024

Ventana and Canonical collaborate on enabling enterprise data center, high-performance and AI computing on RISC-V

Article Silicon

This blog is co-authored by Gordan Markuš, Canonical and Kumar Sankaran, Ventana Micro Systems Unlocking the future of semiconductor innovation RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is rapidly shaping the future of high-performance computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. The...

Canonical
11 April 2024

Canonical
10 April 2024

Canonical announces collaboration with Qualcomm

Article Canonical announcements

The collaboration will bring Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core to devices powered by Qualcomm® processors Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., the latest major System-on-Chip manufacturer and designer to join Canonical’s silicon partner program. Through the partner...

Canonical
10 April 2024

Canonical
14 December 2023

Canonical and Intel’s strategic collaboration brings you confidential computing with Intel® TDX on Ubuntu

Article Canonical announcements

Ensuring data security at run-time has long been an open computing challenge and a tough problem to solve. This gap arises because data must be decrypted in system memory for processing, even when it is stored encrypted. This exposes it to a large attack surface of threats posed by potentially malicious system software,...

Canonical
14 December 2023

Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture

Article Ubuntu

Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which

Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

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