NewElectronics reports that RISC-V International is set to announce that silicon on the open-standard has reached 25% market penetration, according to research from SHD Group whose findings on RISC-V’s market share are expected to be released at the upcoming RISC-V Summit North America.
RISC-V is an open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) for CPUs that first appeared back in 2014.
Until the research is released, however, it remains unclear whether it refers to all silicon microprocessors or to just the markets that RISC-V has entered. But whatever the case this is a major announcement and a significant development in the broader market.
Earlier figures from Omdia were predicting that RISC-V would hit a 25% share of the entire semiconductor market in 2030, reaching 17 billion chips shipped in 2030. Now, according to the estimates compiled by SHD Group, it looks like over 21billion chips will have been shipped by 2031, generating $2 billion in total revenue by this point.
RISC-V International has attributed this growth to RISC-V’s use in Edge AI deployments, which sees localised data hubs replacing the need to send all work to a general cloud hub.
Read more at NewElectronics.
