Apparently, Semiconductor companies that have been using ARM’s services including Samsung Electronics have begun to separate their way. The reason is that they tend to have their notion that ARM has been abusing its power by increasing license fees, also pushing the use of its design. While the alternative is RISC-V, which is an open-source semiconductor design asset. At the same time Samsung, Google, Intel, Qualcomm, and others are promoting the use of RISC-V. Reportedly, Samsung Electronics disclosed recently that it will serve as a steering board member of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE). An open-source software development project launched by the nonprofit Linux Foundation.
Speaking about RISE, then it is an organization launched in order to develop software using RISC-V. Participants are those global IT and semiconductor giants like Samsung Electronics, Google, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
RISC-V has been evaluated as the best way out for companies that seeking to leave ARM. It is founded in 2010 by researchers at UC Berkeley, RISC-V is able to develop semiconductors with similar performance to those ARM chips. While it reduces the chip areas by about 50 percent as well as power consumption by 60 percent. On top of all, RISC-V is open source, thus it does not need any licensing fees. This substantially become the reason that so many IT and semiconductor companies have been promoting RISC-V as an alternative.
RISC-V Applications
In addition to this, RISC-V is showcasing positive tangible results. Qualcomm also began loading its Snapdragon 865 with a RISC-V microcontroller in 2019. Till now, it has been shipped approx 650 million RISC-V cores for mobile devices, automobiles, and IoT applications respectively. Impressively, Google also revealed its hope that RISC-V will tend to become an Android tier 1 platform similar to ARM.
Meanwhile, open source certainly has some limitations. It can be openly used by anyone, thus it becomes fragmented. This impacts the creation of a stable and consistent ecosystem. And therefore, due to this reason, the development of software by several companies has greatly distracted the creation of a RISC-V-based ecosystem.
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