If the growing number of new RISC-V announcements aren’t enough proof of the license-free protocol’s momentum, there is a mountain of analyst predictions, trend research, and market analysis that seems to be getting ever more optimistic about the space.
Research firm Omdia recently forecast that RISC-V-based processor shipments could increase by nearly 50 percent per year until 2030. Although it seems likely that the largest RISC-V opportunities will be in the Automotive and Industrial sectors, it looks like AI applications will be driving that growth in almost every vertical.
“The rise of AI, the increase in use cases and capabilities, means a lot of new territory is being revealed and all of it has potential for RISC-V,” said Edward Wilford, Senior Principal Analyst for IoT, Omdia. “The growth of RISC-V is concurrent with the rise of AI and especially edge AI, and that will provide a massive opportunity for ISA.”