In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

An open-source hardware group on Monday announced an $89 credit-card sized motherboard based on an ARM processor that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices. BeagleBoard’s BeagleBone ...

OpenHW Group, a leading player in the open-source hardware community, has recently unveiled its comprehensive Development Kit for an open-source RISC-V Microcontroller Unit (MCU), known as the OpenHW ...

Read the whole Feb. 3, 2014, issue of InformationWeek, distributed in an all-digital format (registration required). Facebook, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and other leading IT users think the open-source ...

The companies behind Google’s OpenTitan project recently announced the commercial availability of what they called the world’s first chip with open-source hardware security baked directly into it.

The open-source revolution is expanding beyond software into hardware design. New microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and Espressif incorporate processors based on RISC-V—an open-source ...