RISC-V 2026 Update [20:48]

YouTube ^ | April 19, 2026 | ExplainingComputers

[SunkenCiv]

Christopher Barnatt explores the rapidly growing RISC-V landscape, highlighting recent industry acquisitions and the adoption of the RVA23 profile for improved software compatibility. The overview covers developments in automotive, server, and AI sectors, alongside new hardware advancements and enhanced Linux support for this open-standard instruction set architecture. RISC-V annual review, including RVA23 silicon, AI, RISC-V in automotive, and an interview with RISC-V International CEO Andrea Gallo. 

RISC-V 2026 Update | 20:48 
ExplainingComputers | 1.17M subscribers | 45,433 views | April 19, 2026

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: arm; linux; riscv; rva23

[SunkenCiv]

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[Decombobulator]

It’s hard to take a grown man with that hairstyle seriously.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

What is old is new again.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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[SunkenCiv]

He’s the Capt Kangaroo of tech videos! How could anyone distrust Capt Kangaroo!

[libh8er]

Apple was planning on moving to RISC-V eventually. I assume it will accelerate under their new hardware focused CEO. Why continue paying ARM when RISC-V is free ???

[FrankRizzo890]

I used to work for Intel, and they’re concerned about ARM, but they’re absolutely scared to death of RISC-V. “In a few years, that’s all you’ll see”.

[bigbob]

When the Raspberry Pi Foundation was developing the RP-2350 MCU used in the Pico 2, a pair or RISC-V cores was included in the chip as well as the primary dual Arm Cortex-M33 processors. It was a “corner of the desk” project by one of the engineers and switching was included to be able to select either ARM or RISC-V cores. With a focus on education, it was an experiment to see how the two architectures would compare in real-world embedded applications.

In various tests running actual DSP-based code, the RISC-V cores consistently perform as well or better than the ARM cores. They are much smaller, and being open-source do not carry the license fee required for ARM.

This bodes well for powerful new future microcontrollers with multiple RISC-V cores along with the highly innovative features the Pico is known for, such as its 3 programmable locic PIO blocks and the clock-doubling HSTX IO.

[Dr. Sivana]

And here I thought that RISC as such had been co-opted piecemeal by ARM, nVidia, and even in part by the Intel chips.