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About RISC-V

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RISC-V's license lets companies modify the code and keep their changes secret, a powerful incentive for corporate adoption.

This episode explains RISC-V, an open-source, royalty-free instruction set architecture challenging established players like ARM and x86. It traces the history of RISC computing from IBM's 1970s research through Berkeley and Stanford innovations, details RISC-V's unique business-friendly licensing model, and examines its growing commercial adoption from microcontrollers to laptops.

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