Disruptive RISC-V take the lead to open-era of computing

Massive rise in usage of RISC V processor IP in VLSI chip designs lead to open era of computing and it is termed as monumental shift. RISC V has made incredible progress in this direction. The RISC V core market is estimated to grow at 115% CAGR from 2019 to 2025, where it is going to be present in 14% of all CPU cores by 2025. It is projected that from use of 2 billion RISC V cores in 2021, it will double to 4 billion RISC V cores in 2022 and again double to 8 billion RISC V cores in 2023. Zero-license and royailty-fee free RISC V is supported by rapidly growing chip design and embedded software ecosystem. IOT and embedded space is already an area, where RISC V finds a fertile space to grow with no notable weakpoints it has compared to ARM and other processor cores. A full world of opportunity is open to growth-hungry electronics' entrepreneurs. A super-powerful combination of RISC V and Linux (the hardware and software) available to everyone. Since RISC V is open-source IP, it can be used by top semicon maker such as Intel, or top fabless chip maker such as Qualcomm or a student hobbyist to your worst competitor. It is an expanding space, where no one owns and controls this processor IP. Though expanding, this space may also get quickly crowded. In this article let's look at leading (top-25) chip makers who have developed RISC V based products and IPs: Wester...