[kats]

Ok I looked into this some more.

They said "We estimate there are 10bn cores on the market already" (that would be since 2010). Then there's a slide that says "Nearly 80 billion RISC-V CPU cores by 2025".

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/europe-steps-up-as-risc-v-sh...

that's from a talk at Embedded World in june 2022.

I can't find that talk on youtube. But there's another shorter talk that's online, from same CEO at the same conference, where they have a slide that says "North America. Industry adoption has taken off with millions of cores shipping from Nvidia, Western Digital, SiFive, and others."