If 2021’s RISC-V Summit told us anything, it’s that the open-source hardware movement isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
With this year’s RISC-V Summit officially concluded, open-source processors are being adopted faster than ever. Membership in RISC-V International has grown by 130% in 2021 alone—and individual contributors have enthusiastically chipped in. What has the electrical-engineering community achieved throughout the past 12 months with RISC-V?