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RISC-V Is Inevitable, State of the Union Keynote Argues

BOLOGNA, Italy — The state of the RISC-V union is “strong,” declared Krste Asanović, chief architect at SiFive and RISC-V International, and RISC-V project lead at Berkeley, as he opened his keynote at the recent RISC-V Summit Europe 2026.After making its mark in embedded electronics, the open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) now sets its sights on the competitive and profitable world of enterprise data centers and server farms.RISC-V is already well known for its strength in microcon...