The 2024 RISC-V Summit North America marked a significant milestone for the RISC-V community with the ratification of the RVA23 Profile. This event signifies a major step forward in the evolution of RISC-V, positioning it as a strong contender for application processor dominance.
RVA Profiles align implementations of RISC-V 64-bit application processors that will run rich operating systems (OS) stacks from standard binary OS distributions. They’re essential to software portability across many hardware implementations and help to avoid vendor lock-in.