Semiconductor Engineering Article: RISC-V: More Than A Core

The open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is attracting a lot of attention across the semiconductor industry, but its long-term success will depend on levels of cooperation never seen before in the semiconductor industry. The big question now is how committed the industry is to RISC-V’s success.
The real value that RISC-V brings is the promise of an ecosystem and the opportunity for experts within the industry to collectively work on the ISA’s future. That ecosystem may not exist yet, but a roadmap for the future—much like the Moore’s Law roadmap that drove fabrication technology for more than a half-century—does exist.
 
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