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.
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.
This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.
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.
Maybe 25% of the RISC-V market? Like, they’re now meeting 1/4 of the demand?