RISC-V annual review, including RVA23 silicon, AI, RISC-V in automotive, and an interview with RISC-V International CEO Andrea Gallo.

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"Why RISC-V Matters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TmHSsIU1ns

"RISC-V 2025 Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8hPmCZ0mk

"RISC-V 2024 Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mPK3QCrBo

"DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mhd98AGNXQ

"Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V PC Build": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX9Pz1TmEww

And you can find all of the ExplainingComputers RISC-V videos on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/riscv_videos.html


KEY REFERENCES

RISC-V International Annual Report: https://riscv.org/about/annual-report/

“Building a RISC-V Core” and other free training courses: https://riscv.org/community/training/


FULL REFERENCES BY VIDEO SEGMENT

INTRO:

Scaleaway RISC-V cloud services: https://labs.scaleway.com/en/em-rv1/


RISC-V PROGRESS:

SHD Group predictions: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/riscvsummit2025/44/Richard.pdf

Meta acquires Rivos: https://www.lw.com/en/news/latham-watkins-advises-meta-in-acquisition-of-rivos

Qualcomm acquires Ventana: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acquires-ventana-micro-systems--deepening-risc-v-cpu-ex

Arm stock falls following Qualcomm Ventana purchase: https://www.techradar.com/pro/arm-sheds-billions-in-market-capitalization-after-qualcomm-hints-at-risc-v-adoption-with-ventara-micro-acquisition

First RISC-V International annual report: https://riscv.org/about/annual-report/

RISC-V on path for ISO: https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter/


RISC-V & AI:

Meta MTIA v1: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/

Meta MTAI March 2026: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-mtia-scale-ai-chips-for-billions/

SiFive Intelligence Family Second Generation: https://www.sifive.com/press/new-x100-series-second-gen-intelligence-family

Semidynamics: https://semidynamics.com/ai-systems

Esperanto Generative AI Appliance: https://www.esperanto.ai/products/

Google Coral NPU: https://developers.google.com/coral/guides/architecture


RVA23 SILICON:

RVA23 Ratified: https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-announces-ratification-of-the-rva23-profile-standard/

Spacemit K3: https://www.spacemit.com/products/keystone/k3

Akeana RVA23 tapeout: https://www.akeana.com/akeana-tapes-out-highest-performance-rva23-alpine-test-chip/

Tenstorrent Ascalon availability: https://tenstorrent.com/vision/tenstorrent-announces-availability-of-tt-ascalon
 
Spacemit: https://www.spacemit.com/

K3 datasheet: https://cdn-resource.spacemit.com/file/chip/K3/K3_brief_en.pdf

Milk-V Jupiter-II: https://milkv.io/jupiter2

DC Roma RISC-V Laptop Mainboard III: https://deepcomputing.io/dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-iii-unveiled-at-fosdem-powered-by-spacemit-k3-for-framework-laptop-13/

Tenstorrent Ascalon X datasheet: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/jpb4ed5r/production/ffe5aee223d2bd8c4d44611a902ff62a5474e122.pdf

T-Head C950: https://www.xrvm.cn/product/xuantie/C950

C950 Datasheet: https://regmedia.co.uk/2026/03/25/supplied_xuantie_c950_spec_sheet.pdf

RISC-V & LINUX:

RISE Project: https://riseproject.dev/

Ubuntu RISC-V: https://ubuntu.com/blog/tag/risc-v

Red Hat RISC-V: https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel-riscv

Debian RISC-V: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V

Fedora RISC-V: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V

OpenSUSE RISC-V: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:RISC-V

Arch Linux RISC-V: https://archriscv.felixc.at/

Bianbu OS: https://www.spacemit.com/community/document/info?lang=zh&nodepath=software/SDK/bianbu/root_overview.md
 
RISC-V, RISE & Yocto: https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-international-and-the-rise-project-join-forces-for-yocto-project-support

Yocto Project: https://www.yoctoproject.org/


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Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
01:46 RISC-V Progress
04:24 RISC-V in Automotive
07:23 RISC-V & AI
10:29 RVA23 Silicon
16:06 RISC-V & Linux
18:02 Exciting Times

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A 2026 annual review of the RISC-V open ISA ecosystem covering major developments over the past year. Key highlights include Meta's acquisition of Rivos and Qualcomm's acquisition of Ventana Microsystems, RISC-V International's first annual report and ISO PAS recognition, and the ratification of the RVA23 profile enabling binary-compatible application processors. Growing adoption spans automotive (software-defined vehicles), AI accelerators (Meta MTIA, Google Coral NPU, SiFive), and data center servers. New hardware like the SpacemiT K3 SoC and Milk-V Jupiter 2 board are arriving, while Linux distros including Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, RHEL, and Debian 13 are adding RISC-V support. Market predictions suggest RISC-V will reach 33.7% penetration by 2031 with over 35 billion shipped SoCs containing a RISC-V core.

RISC-V 2026 Update