Customization? Yes! After tape-out? Yes!

Another RISC-V Summit is behind us. It was a very well-attended event with many exciting talks and companies highlighting their products at the exhibition. One of the main themes was, once again, customization. Many people and companies, including Meta in their keynote, insisted on the importance of customization and how this key aspect of the RISC-V architecture enables innovation and differentiation. Because RISC-V allows customization, we can overcome problems with new demands on new architectures. The benefits of customization in the form of new instructions or microarchitecture tweaks are well known, and evidence can be found across the industry, from mobile to automotive and HPC.

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