RISC-V 2023 Update: From Embedded Computing to Data Center & Desktop

RISC-V 2023 Update: From Embedded Computing to Data Center & Desktop

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RISC-V annual update. Includes developments from NASA, Google, MIT, RISC-V International, Renesas, Espressif, Ventanna, Tenstorrent, Alibaba / T-Head, Ubuntu, StarFive, SiFive, Pine64, Sipeed and Intel.

If you enjoy this video, you may also like my 2022 episode “Explaining RISC-V”:
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And also my RISC-V SBC reviews, including my 2023 video on StarFive’s VisionFive 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKnc86UtXg

Links to the websites shown in the video (in appearance order) are as follows:

NASA selects RISC-V for HPSC:
https://www.sifive.com/press/nasa-selects-sifive-and-makes-risc-v-the-go-to-ecosystem

Google wants RISC-V to be a “Tier-1” Android Architecture:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/

MIT Technology Review names RISC-V as a top-10 breakthrough technology of 2023:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/24/1064974/riscv-chip-design-10-breakthough-technologies-2023/

First RISC-V manual:
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-62.pdf

RISC-V International website:
https://riscv.org/

RISC-V International YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@RISCVInternational

Renesas RZ/Five MPU:
https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/rz-mpus/rzfive-general-purpose-microprocessors-risc-v-cpu-core-andes-ax45mp-single-10-ghz-2ch-gigabit-ethernet

Espressif ESP32-C3 RISC-V MCU
https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3

Qualcomm December 2022 keynote (650 million RISC-V cores now shipped):
https://youtu.be/t6_9pbgg1LI

RISC-V International News (July 2022): 10 billion cores now shipped:
https://riscv.org/news/2022/07/europe-steps-up-as-risc-v-ships-10bn-cores-nick-flaherty-ee-news-europe/

Ventanna Vyron RISC-V processor family press release:
https://www.ventanamicro.com/ventana-introduces-veyron-worlds-first-data-center-class-risc-v-cpu-product-family/

All About Circuits article about Vyron RISC-V processors:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/server-class-risc-v-core-unveiled-by-ventana-at-risc-v-summit/

The Next Platform “The First RISC-V Shot Across The Datacenter Bow”:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/02/the-first-risc-v-shot-across-the-datacenter-bow/

Tenstorrent Ascalon RISC-V Processor:
https://tenstorrent.com/research/high-performance-risc-v-processor-for-computation-acceleration-and-server-w-wei-han-lien/

Tenstorrent RISC-V:
https://tenstorrent.com/risc-v/

Android demonstrated on RISC-V by T-Head:
https://technode.com/2022/12/15/alibabas-t-head-chip-unit-demonstrates-android-compatibility-on-risc-v-chips/

Ubuntu RISC-V downloads:
https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v

StarFive VisionFive SBCs:
https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards

VisionFive 2 on AllNet (as of March 10 2023 – link may change):
https://shop.allnetchina.cn/collections/top-new-arrivals/products/starfive-visionfive-2-quad-core-risc-v-dev-board?_pos=1&_sid=53c13a4e2&_ss=r

Pine64 Star64:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64

Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A:
https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a/

T-head C910 RISC-V CPU:
https://www.t-head.cn/product/C910

ROMA Laptop on Alibaba:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/DC-ROMA-RISC-V-Development-Laptop_1600610157163.html

SiFive HiFive Pro P550 development system:
https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-pro-p550

Wiki Chip report on RISC-V Horse Creek Development board from Intel & SiFive:
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7277/intel-sifive-demo-high-performance-risc-v-horse-creek-dev-platform-on-intel-4-process/

China pushing RISC-V in face of US Sanctions:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3212122/alibabas-chip-unit-t-head-steps-risc-v-development-china-pushes-open-source-architecture-face-us

EU investing 270 million Euros in RISC-V:
https://riscv.org/news/2022/12/europe-to-dish-out-e270-million-to-build-risc-v-hardware-and-software-agam-shah-hpc-wire/


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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:49 Origins & Governance
03:08 The Open ISA
05:02 Embedded RISC-V
07:12 Enterprise RISC-V
08:41 End-user RISC-V
12:09 RISC-V Disruption

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