What is RISC-V?

Even for computing hobbyists, RISC-V is a bit in the weeds, but perhaps not for long. It’s one of the rising stars in the computing world and is one of the most successful (if not the most successful) examples of open-source and open-standard hardware. It’s predicted that tens of billions of RISC-V cores will be sold over the next few years, a number that would rival the amount of x86 and ARM cores sold in the same time frame. Here’s everything you need to know about RISC-V and where it’s going.