RISC-V Momentum
We’re off to an incredible start in 2023! We have already ratified several extensions and are on course to complete six ratifications in the first quarter including Profiles. We’ve also initiated planning for RISC-V Summits in Europe (Barcelona, June 5-9), China (August), and the US (Santa Clara, November), as well as numerous events happening around the world in partnership with our community. We’re continuing to see tremendous momentum with companies moving through the architecture compatibility process, hosting technical sessions for deeper dives on RISC-V, signing up for RISC-V learning and certification, signing up for mentorships, and engaging across our technical, marketing, and academic groups.
In 2023, we have several priorities underway to ensure industry adoption of RISC-V compatible implementations, promote collaboration, drive specification development progress, and ultimately ratify extensions. In marketing, our goal is to increase visibility of the incredible progress of RISC-V across the industry through amplification, media engagement, press, and our online center of gravity. You’ll see many of these elements reflected in our newsletters going forward.
I invite you to engage deeply – the era of open computing is well underway and begins with the RISC-V community.
Calista Redmond
CEO, RISC-V
RISC-V Technical Updates
Profiles are Our Highest Priority
Great work is being done by dozens of technical working groups. Currently, Profiles are viewed as the highest priority. Profiles for RVI20, RVA20, and RVA22 are expected to be ratified in Q1. We expect RVA23, which includes Crypto Vector and Android™, to be ratified by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the next RVA profile is expected to be defined by the beginning of Q4.
We are targeting six ratifications in Q1 and 13 additional ratifications in Q2. Our Q1 and Q2 specification freeze and ratification milestones should help us complete specifications started in 2022 and earlier. We have successfully employed a divide-and-conquer strategy with many of our specifications being smaller or fast-tracked to enable members to implement necessary extensions more quickly. As part of this streamlining, in the February board meeting, the Board has approved moving to a 30-day (down from 45-day) public review period to allow for diligence while accelerating ratifications. Check out the specification status.
Stay informed and get involved. Check out the RISC-V Technical Meetings Calendar.
RISC-V Community
Submit Your Summer Mentorship Proposal Now
Students and young professionals have emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most passionate segments of the community. As part of RISC-V’s efforts to support and foster this important part of our community, we launched the RISC-V Mentorship Program.
In 2022, the RISC-V Mentorship Program matched 11 mentors with 15 mentees to work on projects around the globe, helping to fast-track careers, growth, and engagement in the ecosystem. RISC-V organizational members are welcome to submit a mentorship project proposal for consideration. Submit a project and apply to be a mentor by March 13.
There are many additional areas to engage in our community building efforts:
- Join the Academic Special Interest group where universities engage and connect
- Enlist in RISC-V online training and certification, or reach out to propose and help us build new courses at learn@riscv.org
- Catch up on RISC-V sessions on YouTube including content from the Summit 2022
- Looking for a new role? Seeking RISC-V talent for your team? Open roles across the community are on RISC-V Careers, and there’s an option to add your own job openings.
Marketing Update
You’ve heard it by now:
- RISC-V is inevitable
- RISC-V enables the best processors
- RISC-V is rapidly building the strongest ecosystem
How is the RISC-V community sharing the RISC-V story? Our goal this year is to make it as easy as possible for our members to evangelize RISC-V and do it in a consistent way. Together, we want to amplify RISC-V momentum, to showcase and ignite adoption and collaboration. We look to do this with compelling content, events and campaigns.
Our 2023 priorities include focusing on better communications with our community, branding and messaging around Profiles and Platforms, modernizing riscv.org and Exchange, hosting three global RISC-V Summits (Europe, China, and North America) as well as providing assets members can use in sharing information on RISC-V.
Track progress and get involved. Join the RISC-V Marketing Committee.
RISC-V Events
- Embedded World 2023 (March 14-16, Nuremberg, Germany) – The RISC-V Pavilion features eight members and talks in our Demo Theater. In all, over 25 RISC-V members have a presence at the show, with 14 talks on the program from the RISC-V ecosystem.
- RISC-V Summit Europe (June 5-9, Barcelona, Spain) – The first-ever RISC-V Summit Europe will feature invited keynotes and selected talks, alongside an exhibition showcasing the latest developments across industries and the research community, including technology demonstrations and poster sessions. We’ll focus on industries such as Automotive, High Performance Compute/Data Center, and Security.
- The Call for Submissions is now open through March 20
- Sponsorship packages are currently available
- Register now
- Design Automation Conference (San Francisco, July 9-13) – The RISC-V Zone exhibit area connects the community of designers, executives, researchers, and developers harnessing the power of the RISC-V open source architecture for ASIC and FPGA designs.
- Save the dates! RISC-V Summit China is currently being planned for August 2023 and RISC-V Summit North America is being planned for the week of November 5.
Meanwhile, check out all the events where the community is showcasing RISC-V.
To submit an event or webinar to be posted on the website, use the event submission request form on the RISC-V events page.
Share your story and answer the call! These are a few upcoming deadlines for speaking opportunities:
- Hot Chips (Aug. 27-29 in the Bay Area): Speaking submissions are due March 22
- ISC 23 High Performance (May 22-25, Hamburg, Germany) – Deadline to submit papers for the Workshop for RISC-V in HPC is March 24.
- Supercomputing (Nov. 12-17, Denver, CO): Paper submissions are due March 30.
RISC-V In the News, just a few of many we see each day:
- Open-Source, RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade – Tom’s Hardware, Feb. 11, 2023
- Is RISC-V Ready for Supercomputing? – Semiconductor Engineering, Feb. 9, 2023
- The First RISC-V Shot Across the Data Center Bow – The Next Platform, Feb. 2, 2023
- What Does 2023 Have In Store For Chip Design? – Semiconductor Engineering, Jan. 26, 2023
- RISC-V Foundation’s Chairman says: “All Your Cores Are Belong to Us” – EE Journal, Jan. 23, 2023
- Google’s Flutter is Getting Improved Graphics Features, Web Integration and RISC-V Support – SiliconAngle, Jan. 23, 2023
- Selecting The Right RISC-V Core – Semiconductor Engineering, Jan. 16, 2023
- A Chip Design That Changes Everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023 – MIT Technology Review, Jan. 9, 2023
- Google Wants RISC-V to be a “Tier-1” Android Architecture – ArsTechnica, Jan. 3, 2023
- Maven Silicon’s RISC-V Processor IP Verification Flow – Feb. 24, 2023
- Porting NuttX Real-Time Operating System on PolarFire® SoC FPGA – Feb. 21, 2023
- Announcing the First International Workshop for HPC Based on RISC-V – Feb. 14, 2023
- TEE SoC Based on RISC-V – Feb. 10, 2023
- XuanTie Matrix Multiplies Extension Instructions – Feb. 10, 2023
- CPU RTL Co-simulation in Renode – Feb. 7, 2023
Do you have news or blogs we can amplify? The blog, In the News, and social media submission request form can be found on the RISC-V News & Blog page.
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