RISC-V Is Growing Up: From Academic Curiosity to Mainstream Silicon

RISC-V adoption started as a research project at UC Berkeley back in 2010. Nobody expected it to challenge Intel or Arm. Yet RISC-V just crossed 25% of global chip design share in 2026, and it now stands as a real third option alongside x86 and Arm. This is the story of how RISC-V grew up. […]