While sweeping the world of open source software, open source hardware foundation is also developing steadily, and this one RISC-V is currently the most fiery of the project. Calista Redmond RISC-V Foundation CEO, recently shared some RISC-V ecological development of the situation.
Open source instruction set RISC-V compared to other instruction sets can be freely used for any purpose, allowing anyone to design, manufacture and sale of RISC-V chips and software, because of these characteristics that have attracted IBM, NXP, Western Digital, Nvidia , Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Huawei, Ali, Red Hat and Tesla more than 100 technology companies to join its camp, the industry also continue to build the ecosystem around it, on the other competitors ARM caused a huge impact. China had also set up a RISC-V China Alliance , Alliance chairman Ni Guangnan recent for RISC-V eco judgment is this: X86 monopoly, ARM is too expensive, RISC-V in the future be worthy of Dayong .
RISC-V Foundation is the operator RISC-V is a nonprofit company that promotes the adoption and implementation of RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which is developing rapidly in recent years, there are a number of organizations from around the world, individuals joined with the University.
Calista, currently has launched a wide range of RISC-V project, including wearable health monitor projects, as well as chips for expansion of the University of Bologna, Italy, Spain and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for the cloud data center. Wherein for example, a RISC-V independent of the specific use cases is driving a car, an autonomous driving cars requiring low power but high-performance processor to process data in real time.
Semico Research estimates that by 2025 there will be 62.4 billion RISC-V CPU core tablet.
In his speech, Calista pointed RISC-V has the characteristics of proprietary architectures may be difficult to realize, that this is a customized design of the processor, such as Intel and AMD chip giant orders may have difficulty adapting. She pointed out that Amazon, Google and Alibaba and other cloud providers have in designing their own chips, while Nvidia and Western Digital have provided RISC-V microcontroller for many years in their products.
She said: "The simple design, can be performed by using modular, in many different industries in technological innovation, and to overturn the traditional in many industries." "By having an open and free business models, reduce costs, and can be developed in collaboration We hope workloads services. "It is these reasons make RISC-V is currently being sought.
Community growth aspects, Calista introduction, RISC-V Foundation in China has more than 30 members, more than 200 people involved in local associations; in 2019 the Foundation organized 20 field activities; the Government of India supported a project will create 6 different RISC-V processor; Japan also has auto-related active community; RISC-V is also very popular in Pakistan, 3,000 people attended the two local activities, the Foundation is now Pakistan established its first dedicated RISC- V training institutions.
Calista stressed its conviction, RISC-V will have the opportunity to subvert the processor industry, and many rely on technology to subvert the industry.