In a recent TWS market study, SAR finds that the use of RISC-V cores is increasing. The RISC-V is license free core although one has sole responsibility to make the core run without any technical issues.
Fabless TWS SoC companies such as mid-to-low tier IC companies may find RISC-V cores appealing due to the cost saving reason as they do not have to a pay license fee, unlike ARM cores.
Andes Technology is one of the early companies supporting RISC-V cores and they are one of the founding members of RISC-V International Association.
It is expected that more and more design service companies may choose to provide RISC-V core implementation such as Andes Technology. Ceva, Cadence and Synopsys may choose to participate in the support of RISC-V even though they may already have their own CPU core implementation.
SAR’s latest TWS market study covers CPU cores being used in the TWS SoCs that are in the market.
