Keynote: Instruction Sets Want to be Free - A 10 Year Retrospective

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Revisits the ten-year claim that an open ISA can evolve and scale, arguing evidence includes 400 organizations and 5,000 individual members, Berkeley’s eight chip designs, and community adoption across embedded, automotive, data center and AI markets. Reports more than 2 billion SoCs shipping this year with projection to ~20 billion by 2031, community-driven ISA extensions added through consensus, and practical tradeoffs (no large market yet for 128-bit addresses, AI favoring smaller datatypes).

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1. 0:00The case for RISC-V
2. 1:16Responding to industry doubt
3. 2:31The necessity of open ISAs
4. 4:48The dominance of RISC
5. 5:57Designing the RISC-V ISA
6. 8:18Global adoption and growth
7. 10:02Ten-year retrospective
8. 12:45Recognition and closing

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