Tom’s Hardware: Risc-V Set to Announce 25% Market Penetration

RISC-V International plans to announce that silicon on the open-standard has reached 25% market penetration later this month, says Tom’s Hardware writer Sunny Grimm. Market analysts SHD Group are primed to announce their findings on RISC-V market share at the RISC-V Summit North America.

RISC-V is an open-standard (not to be confused with open-source) instruction set architecture (ISA) for CPUs, first established in 2010. For those unfamiliar, an instruction set architecture is a technical model that determines how computer software controls the computer’s processor. The ISA defines what instructions a processor can perform in order to output computations. RISC-V, a reduced-complexity ISA, is most closely related to Arm, also a RISC, known for powering most mobile and some laptop devices.

That RISC-V has swelled to 25% market penetration could come as a shock to industry analysts. While it’s uncertain at this point whether the market in question refers to all silicon microprocessors or just the markets that RISC-V has entered so far, those being mostly simple MCUs for IoT and automotive use-cases, the number still represents a mighty leap for the ISA.

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