The global semiconductor landscape has reached a historic inflection point as the open-source RISC-V architecture officially secured 25% market penetration this month, signaling the end of the long-standing architectural monopoly held by proprietary giants. This milestone, verified by industry analysts in late December 2025, marks a seismic shift in how the world’s most advanced hardware is designed, licensed, and deployed. Driven by a collective industry push for “architectural sovereignty,” RISC-V has evolved from an academic experiment into the cornerstone of the next generation of computing.
25% of what?
1/4 of 100% of what?
I’ve seen zero RISC devices in the wild, and the phrasing here wants me to think I should have by now.
Maybe 25% of the RISC-V market? Like, they’re now meeting 1/4 of the demand?
I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.
Microcontroller market is dominated by ARM. There’s no way RISC-V has 25 % of that market yet.
Saying this as someone who has been eagerly awaiting RISC-V microcontrollers for years.
Now I’ve read the article it’s unnamed industry analysts and it’s written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.
Ever seen an Nvidia GPU? They’ve been using them for years. One estimate is they shipped 1 billion cores in 2024.
Not as end user programmable chips of course, but the “end user devices” market is only a small part of the total industry.
This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.