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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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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

25% of what?

1/4 of 100% of what?

I've seen zero RISC devices in the wild, and the phrasing here wants me to think I should have by now.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Maybe 25% of the RISC-V market? Like, they’re now meeting 1/4 of the demand?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 0 points 11 hours ago

I’ve seen zero RISC devices in the wild

Ever seen an Nvidia GPU? They've been using them for years. One estimate is they shipped 1 billion cores in 2024.

Not as end user programmable chips of course, but the "end user devices" market is only a small part of the total industry.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Microcontroller market is dominated by ARM. There's no way RISC-V has 25 % of that market yet.

Saying this as someone who has been eagerly awaiting RISC-V microcontrollers for years.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago

Now I've read the article it's unnamed industry analysts and it's written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.