RISC-V’s Edge & IoT Takeover: Billions of Open-Source Cores Drive 2025 Tech Revolution
Over 13 billion RISC-V processor cores shipped by 2023, with billions more expected annually, mainly for IoT and embedded devices. Nvidia projects shipping about 1 billion RISC-V cores in 2024 across its GPUs and SoCs. Qualcomm passed 1 billion RISC-V microcontroller devices in late 2023. Renesas launched its first RISC-V-based general-purpose microcontrollers in 2024.
