Computing · 2010

RISC-V

An open instruction set anyone can use.

Krste Asanović and David Patterson's team at Berkeley started RISC-V as a free, open ISA. Billions of RISC-V cores now ship in microcontrollers and accelerators.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Open source 1998
RISC 1980

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transistors per microprocessor Latest: 58.2B transistors (2021) Source: Our World in Data