RISC-V: Real Products in Volume

community.cadence.com, Dec. 10, 2018 – 

I titled my preview of the RISC-V Summit RISC-V Summit Preview: Pascal or Linux? since it is clear that RISC-V is really the only game in town inside academia, but it still hasn't conquered the commercial world. So it's already Pascal but not (yet?) Linux.

It is still too soon to say, but here are a few datapoints that I will either cover in more detail below or in future posts.

• Western Digital (plus Sandisk inside) announced last year that they would use RISC-V for all their processors. This year, they announced SweRV, which is a dual-issue in-order processor with impressively high performance. They also announced that they would completely open source it, along with some other pieces of RISC-V ecosystem.