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RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon (markets.financialcontent.com)
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The global semiconductor landscape has reached a historic inflection point as the open-source RISC-V architecture officially secured 25% market penetration this month, signaling the end of the long-standing architectural monopoly held by proprietary giants. This milestone, verified by industry analysts in late December 2025, marks a seismic shift in how the world’s most advanced hardware is designed, licensed, and deployed. Driven by a collective industry push for "architectural sovereignty," RISC-V has evolved from an academic experiment into the cornerstone of the next generation of computing.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mostly Qualcomm's cpus for automotive and enterprise servers and Meta's (Facebook) custom AI chips.

For consumer products is still an hobbist with Linux exclusive.

SteamDeck 2 will still have an ARM.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

SteamDeck 2 will still have an ARM.

Of what little I know, ARM core designs should be relatively easy to repurpose for RISC-V ISA, once the set of extensions normally used becomes certain. Most of the work being in decoders.

So it just comes down to a still new and not entirely stable ISA. Like with network protocols.