Dan is joined by Andrea Gallo, CEO of RISC-V International, the non-profit home of the RISC-V instruction set architecture standard, related specifications, and stakeholder community. Prior to joining RISC-V International, Gallo worked in leadership roles at Linaro for over a decade. He built Linaro’s server engineering team from the ground up. He later managed the Linaro Datacenter and Cloud, Home, Mobile, Networking, loT and Embedded Segment Groups and underlying open source collaborative projects, in addition to driving the company’s membership acquisition strategy as vice president of business development.
Andrea describes the current focus of RISC-V International and where he sees the standard having impact going forward. He details some recent events that have showcased the impact of RISC-V across many markets and applications across the world. Andrea describes the substantial impact RISC-V is having in mainstream and emerging markets. AI is clearly a key part of this. So is automotive and high-performance computing. He explains that some mainstream AI applications shipped over 1 billion RISC-V cores. The growth of the movement and the breadth of its application are quite impressive.