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by dismalaf 13 days ago
Nvidia has shipped over 3 billion RISC-V cores: https://riscv.org/blog/how-nvidia-shipped-one-billion-risc-v...

Tenstorrent is shipping RISC-V chips made on Samsung 3nm node: https://tenstorrent.com/newsroom/tenstorrent-sets-new-perfor...

Note that Jim Keller (heavyweight in the world of CPU architecture) is their CEO.

Qualcomm recently acquired a RISC-V startup. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acqu...

Plus they're eating ARM for low-end devices (IoT).

RISC-V is going to become the Linux of chips, for the same reasons Linux became big. It might honestly come even faster as Microsoft isn't tethered to any chipmaker these days.