The first RISC-V Annual Report hit virtual shelves this week. Inside, it details a defining year for RISC-V, the open standard ISA I co-founded back in 2010. We share major technical milestones, accelerating industry adoption, global ecosystem growth, and how we’ve laid foundations for the next phase of commercial deployment.

You’ll find me on page 10 of the report, delivering the same consistent message to audiences at RISC-V Summits around the world: The State of the Union Is Strong.

By ‘union’, I refer to the RISC-V ecosystem: its contributors, users, and developers, from multi-national corporations to solo academics, working together under a shared banner to strengthen the standard and deliver real, functioning systems.