ASPIRE Director Krste Asanovic gave a RISC-V Short Keynote Talk at the Design Automation Conference, and received coverage from a number of semiconductor industry blogs:

http://semiengineering.com/an-alternative-to-x86-arm-architectures/

http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2016/06/12/open-source-ip-dac-2016/

http://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/archive/2016/06/08/dac-wednesday