TIBURON, CA (July 18, 2025)—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a leader in semiconductor and system architecture analysis, has released its RISC-V Market Insights – H1 2025 report, a comprehensive review of the maturing RISC-V processor IP market.
The report analyzes major structural shifts in the RISC-V landscape—from rising investor pressure and M&A activity, including the recent purchase of MIPS by GlobalFoundries, to the hardening of IP cores and the evolving geopolitics around open architectures.
“The RISC-V movement is growing up. We’re seeing serious standardization, market consolidation, and commercial traction—especially in automotive and AI,” said JPR Senior Analyst David Harold.
Key findings from the report include:
• Over a dozen major RISC-V IP vendors tracked—with SiFive, Codasip, MIPS, Tenstorrent, Andes, and Semidynamics leading.
• Consolidation is underway: Codasip launched a formal sale process in July, and MIPS was acquired by GlobalFoundries.
• Standardization gains ground: Profiles like RVA23 are improving cross-vendor compatibility and pushing vendors toward hardened, silicon-ready IP.
• China could fork RISC-V if export restrictions tighten, threatening Western vendors’s revenue but likely creating neutral growth markets in Southeast Asia.
• Europe mobilizes: The Quintauris consortium and projects like RISE are creating a public-private road map for sovereign compute based on RISC-V.
The report emphasizes a pivot from hyper-customizable designs to reliable, pre-verified cores—mirroring Arm’s move to chiplets and hardened IP.
“RISC-V can no longer win on flexibility alone. Customers want predictability, toolchain maturity, and risk reduction. That’s pushing vendors to harden their IP and align with standard profiles,” said Harold.
JPR also documents the rise of mixed models, whereby companies like Tenstorrent and MIPS provide both IP and silicon, blurring the line between supplier and competitor.
AI and automotive remain critical battlegrounds. Players like Semidynamics, SiFive, and RED Semiconductor are developing vector and matrix extensions for inference and real-time compute. RISC-V’s openness also remains a hedge against geopolitical risk, with adoption spreading in Japan, Korea, and parts of Europe.
The 74-page report includes detailed profiles of over 20 companies, commentary from recent JPR interviews, and customer lists where available. Market watchers will also find assessments of chiplet strategies, GPU tie-ins, and the future of Windows on RISC-V.
Available now, RISC-V Market Insights – H1 2025 offers unmatched depth for engineers, executives, and investors navigating the RISC-V ecosystem.
To access the full report or speak with an analyst, visit www.jonpeddie.com.
The new Q2’25 edition of the RISC-V Market Insights report contains all the above information and more, including an in-depth database of all the suppliers. Subscribers also receive access to direct support, custom data requests, and analyst introductions.
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JPR also publishes a series of reports on GPU quarterly shipments, CPU shipments, the graphics add-in board market, the workstation market, and PC gaming hardware market. The latter covers the total market, including systems and accessories, and examines 31 countries.
Pricing and availability
JPR’s H1’25 RISC-V Market Insights report is available now.
JPR’s RISC-V Market Insights report can be purchased for $6,000 for four quarterly issues, which includes a half hour of telephone consulting time per quarter, or $2,500 for a single issue with telephone time.
About Jon Peddie Research
Jon Peddie Research has been active in the graphics and multimedia fields for more than 30 years. JPR is a technically oriented multimedia and graphics research and consulting firm. Based in Tiburon, California, JPR provides consulting, research, and other specialized services to technology companies in various fields, including graphics development, multimedia for professional applications and consumer electronics, high-end computing, and Internet-access product development. JPR’s Market Watch is a quarterly report focused on PC graphics controllers market activity for notebook and desktop computing.