RISC-V Gains Momentum As EDA & AI Chip Design Leader Announces New IP

In recent years, the RISC-V architecture has gained significant traction amongst a wide variety of chipmakers. It may be less than a decade since the first RISC-V workshops were held, but today the open architecture is finding its way into a myriad of chips and technologies industry-wide. It was just a couple of weeks ago when tech giants Google and Qualcomm announced they’d be teaming up on a RISC-V based Snapdragon Wearable Platform for future Wear OS devices, and today – with the RISC-V Summit currently underway in Santa Clara – silicon design, verification and IP leader Synopsys has announced an array of new 32-bit and 64-bit ARC-V Processor IP targeting embedded automotive, storage, and IoT applications.