Friday, August 4th 2023
Leading Semiconductor Industry Players Join Forces to Accelerate RISC-V
Semiconductor industry players Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., have come together to jointly invest in a company aimed at advancing the adoption of RISC-V globally by enabling next-generation hardware development.
Formed in Germany, this company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions widely used in the industry. Initial application focus will be automotive, but with an eventual expansion to include mobile and IoT.
At its core, RISC-V encourages innovation, allowing any company to develop cutting-edge, customized hardware based on an open-source instruction set. Further adoption of the RISC-V technology will promote even more diversity in the electronics industry - reducing the barriers to entry for smaller and emergent companies and enabling increased scalability for established companies.
The company calls on industry associations, leaders, and governments, to join forces in support of this initiative which will help increase the resilience of the broader semiconductor ecosystem.
The company formation will be subject to regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions.
Source:
Robert Bosch GmbH; Infineon Technologies AG; Nordic Semiconductor; NXP Semiconductors; Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Formed in Germany, this company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions widely used in the industry. Initial application focus will be automotive, but with an eventual expansion to include mobile and IoT.
The company calls on industry associations, leaders, and governments, to join forces in support of this initiative which will help increase the resilience of the broader semiconductor ecosystem.
The company formation will be subject to regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions.
34 Comments on Leading Semiconductor Industry Players Join Forces to Accelerate RISC-V
Could also lead to some interesting designs (something crazy, like 16 cores SoC CPUs).
With RISC-V they stop having to pay ISA licenses to existing companies like ARM and MIPS enabling them to use the risc-v ISA which is very scalable up and down to enable more microcontrollers/cpu everywhere in the car network.
mobile and iot are consumer trash, disposable, abandoned in no time
And in this post-rona, inflation-fueled world, if you're expecting anything tech related to get cheaper just because of a change in ISA's or reductions of licensing fees, then I have some prime beachfront property **in central montana** that you should buy, like, yesterday, hehehe :)
But I'm with you about people using the cloud without grasping the implications.
TL;DR There are drawbacks, but there are good reasons why you want a smart vehicle to be online.
As far as this news is concerned, it is a predictable consequence of ARM strong-arming its customers. Qualcomm, in particular, has the design chops to go its own way.
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you mean the companies at the bottom of the barreland its arms insane price hikes that is moving above mentioned companies to move away from arm