SiFive, the first really visible company to commercialize RISC-V. But does that mean that this will become yet another single-sourced processor? What if there were options when there is a deep community with real competition? There are a couple of things buried in that last question: community and competition. NXP has an opinion on the state of the community, and they’re doing some work (for free, at least at present) to build more community. As far as I can tell, their goal isn’t specifically to create more competition, but that could be a side effect of a robust community. To read more, please visit: https://www.eejournal.com/article/priming-the-risc-v-pump/.
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