How RISC V made the Quick Jump from Academia to Industry
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A venture capital view that claims RISC-V moves from lab to market by lowering design cost and speeding experiments: SiFive licenses a first CPU to investors and tapes two chips with a $5M runway to prove demand; the CPU IP market is about $1.5B versus a chip market 100x larger; FPGA buyers (~30,000) serve as an early proxy for customers; verification and security are ongoing bottlenecks (roughly 20% solved), and the cloud design model for chips is the core enablement.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Investment philosophy
- 1:23Assessing market risk
- 3:33The origin of SiFive
- 5:54Semiconductor market trends
- 8:15The role of RISC-V
- 10:15The future of computing
- 11:35Cloud model for hardware
- 14:49Long-term market outlook
- 16:31Q&A session
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