ARM, x86 rival, RISC-V architecture has shipped 10 billion cores

RISC-V is an open source, free instruction set architecture based on the principles of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set), and currently has a significant market in some edge devices as another popular CPU architecture in addition to x86 and ARM.

Recently, Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International, revealed at Embedded World that there are already 10 billion RISC-V cores on the market.

Calista Redmond says open standards are the key, "Linux is doing this for software, and we're doing it for hardware. We estimate that there are already 10 billion RISC-V cores on the market".

It took 17 years for the ARM architecture to reach this milestone in 2008, and only about 12 years for RISC-V. Calista Redmond also wrote in a PPT that RISC-V CPU cores are expected to reach 80 billion by 2025.

On June 21, RISC-V International also announced the approval of the first four specifications and extensions for 2022 - the RISC-V E-Trace, the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), the RISC-V Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, and the RISC-V UEFI specification. UEFI) specification, and RISC-V Zmmul pure multiplication extensions.

Calista Redmond said, "RISC-V's contributions and culture of collaboration continue to produce impressive strategic results, and RISC-V members are leaders in the open computing era, demonstrating that collaboration accelerates innovation through shared investment while increasing global opportunity."