Linux Foundation Europe and a number of big names in tech have banded together to drive development of a comprehensive software ecosystem that supports the open RISC-V processor instruction set architecture.
Made in China
RISC-V provides China with a shortcut around the laborious prospect of developing their own architecture. Coming up with a whole new architecture is nearly impossible, but a design based on some architecture is very different from the architecture itself.
So it should come as no surprise that the majority of RISC-V members are based in China, according to a report published last year. And the country's government-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences is actively developing open source RISC-V performance processors.