San Jose, Calif. – Dec. 13, 2022 – RISC-V International, the global open standards organization, highlighted the community’s impressive growth milestones and technical progress at the global RISC-V Summit, taking place Dec. 13-15 in San Jose, Calif. and virtually. RISC-V International has seen more than 26% membership growth year-over-year, with over 3,180 members across 70 countries. Today, there are more than 10 billion RISC-V cores in the market, and tens of thousands of engineers working on RISC-V initiatives globally. 

“Our vision for 2022 was to bring RISC-V everywhere, and that has really come to fruition with RISC-V adoption and development in everything from automotive to aerospace to the data center, as well as consumer devices,” said Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International. “There are already billions of RISC-V cores in the market with this groundswell, and we expect to see billions more in 2023 as companies and countries around the world embrace RISC-V.”

Some of the most important technical progress on RISC-V over the past year has been the community’s work on RISC-V Profiles to define versioned collections of instructions, behavior, and state that enable application portability between implementations. The public review for RISC-V Profiles RVI20, RVA20, and RVA22 just wrapped up and will be voted upon for ratification in Q1 of 2023. 

The RISC-V community has also made strong progress on specifications and extensions, ratifying six this past year, with 10 additional specifications and extensions are expected to be ratified in the next 120 days.

Read the full announcement here.