RISC-V：由全球社区支持的开放标准，为所有人提供开放计算

原文标题： RISC-V: An Open Standard – Backed by a Global Community – to Enable Open Computing for All 原文链接： https://riscv.org/blog/2023/10/risc-v-an-open-standard-backed-by-a-global-community-to-enable-open-computing-for-all/

小编备注：以下为机器翻译，并附带原文。这篇文章可以作为对过去几天美国议员相关言论以及对RISC-V的开放性质疑的澄清。

RISC-V：由全球社区支持的开放标准，为所有人提供开放计算

作者：卡莉斯塔·雷蒙德 2023 年 10 月 9 日

整个技术生态系统都受益于开放标准（Open Standard），无论是 RISC-V 还是以太网、HTTPS、JPEG 或 USB 等其他流行标准。

RISC-V 具有战略重要性的三个关键原因

• 几十年来，开放标准对于技术创新、采用和发展至关重要
• 开放标准为广泛的利益相关者（就业、消费者、研究、学术界、工业界等）创造机会并刺激增长
• RISC-V 是定义的开放标准计算指令集架构

几十年来，开放标准对于技术创新、采用和发展至关重要

纵观历史，可互操作的（interoperable）标准激励更多客户购买新型产品，为更多供应商提供更多机会，在增值功能和服务上展开竞争。 基于此类标准的兼容性对于更大的技术生态系统中的全球创新至关重要。 竞争不是基于共享标准，而是基于每个供应商在标准化层之上添加的独特价值。

长期以来，参与全球标准的制定一直是美国以及世界各地技术领导者的标志，他们不仅参与了各种传统标准组织，而且还带头组建了一千多个财团、联盟 和论坛将一些最重要的信息和通信技术标准推向市场。

开放标准为广泛的利益相关者（就业、消费者、研究、学术界、工业界等）创造机会并刺激增长

参与开放标准开辟并创造了参与全球供应链、发展伙伴关系以及各种产品和服务市场的新机会。 参与和领导全球标准是世界各地的公司在全球市场中蓬勃发展的经过验证的、成功的和必要的模式。

参与和受益的能力在开放标准中更具包容性——因为多元化的社区可以由从大型跨国公司到羽翼未丰的初创企业、学生和学术界、到政府、研究人员甚至个人的各种人员组成。

政府对开放标准采取前所未有的限制的预期行动将导致产品、解决方案和人才进入全球市场的机会减少。 标准层面上的分歧将导致一个充满不兼容解决方案的世界，从而重复工作并关闭市场。

RISC-V 是定义的开放标准计算指令集架构

RISC-V 将会继续存在。 作为计算的开放标准，它的全球采用率和影响力已经大幅增长。 RISC-V 是一个开放标准，吸收了来自世界各地的有意义的贡献。 作为全球标准，RISC-V 不受任何单一公司或国家的控制。

RISC-V 规范的开发基于非专有的贡献或均匀分布在北美、欧洲和亚洲的 RISC-V 成员公开培养的贡献。 RISC-V International 不提供芯片设计、开源内核、专有 IP 或实现，而是发布一组常用的全球开放标准。 这些已发布的标准所包含的信息并不比专有架构已发布的信息多。 唯一的区别是市场可以使用这些标准，而无需获得控股公司的专有许可。 竞争不是发生在标准层面，而是发生在实施层面。

RISC-V 为世界各地的公司带来了参与快速增长的半导体领域的巨大潜力。 限制公司、代工厂、政府和研究机构采用 RISC-V 将使他们无法从自己资助和创建的开放标准中受益，同时让全球竞争对手在自己的实施中领先。

获得开放标准可以让公司更快地创新，并把时间花在创造差异化产品上，而不是试图重新发明轮子。 正如世界各地的公司都采用以太网、HTTPS、JPEG 和 USB 标准一样，我们也看到 RISC-V 作为开放标准的类似趋势。 RISC-V 的灵活性、可扩展性和扩展性为开发人员提供了无与伦比的设计自由度。

我们邀请您参加 2023 年 11 月 7 日至 8 日在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉举行的 RISC-V 峰会，亲身了解 RISC-V 的创新、进展和采用。

要了解有关 RISC-V 作为开放标准的历史的更多信息，请访问：https://riscv.org/about/history/

要了解有关采用开放标准的更多信息，

以下为原文

RISC-V: An Open Standard – Backed by a Global Community – to Enable Open Computing for All By Calista RedmondOctober 9, 2023No Comments The entire tech ecosystem benefits from standards being open, whether it’s RISC-V or other popular standards such Ethernet, HTTPS, JPEG, or USB.

Three key reasons RISC-V is strategically important

• Open Standards have been critical to technology innovation, adoption, and growth for decades
• Open Standards create access to opportunities and spur growth for a wide range of stakeholders (jobs, consumers, research, academia, industry, etc)
• RISC-V is the defined open standard Instruction Set Architecture for computing

Open Standards have been critical to technology innovation, adoption, and growth for decades

Throughout history, interoperable standards provide incentives for more customers to buy new types of products, creating additional opportunities for more vendors to provide them, competing on value-added features and services. Compatibility based on such standards is essential for innovation on a global basis within the larger tech ecosystem. Competition is not based on shared standards, but rather on the unique value that each vendor adds on top of the standardized layer.

Engaging in the cultivation of global standards has long been a hallmark of technical leaders in the US as well as around the world, who have not only participated across the spectrum of traditional standards organizations but led the way in forming more than a thousand consortia, alliances, and fora that have brought some of the most important information and communications technology standards to the marketplace.

Open Standards create access to opportunities and spur growth for a wide range of stakeholders (jobs, consumers, research, academia, industry, etc)

Engagement in open standards has opened up and created new opportunities to engage in global supply chains, development partnerships, and markets for all sorts of products and services. Engagement and leadership in global standards is a proven, successful, and necessary model for companies around the world to thrive in global markets.

The ability to participate and benefit is much more inclusive in open standards – as diverse communities can be composed of everything from large, multinational companies to fledgling start-ups, students and academia, to government, researchers and even individuals.

Contemplated actions by governments for an unprecedented restriction in open standards will have the consequence of diminished access to the global marketplace of products, solutions, and talent. Bifurcating on the standards level would lead to a world of incompatible solutions that duplicate effort and close off markets.

RISC-V is the defined open standard Instruction Set Architecture for computing

RISC-V is here to stay. It has already grown tremendously in global adoption and influence as the open standard for compute. RISC-V is an open standard and has incorporated meaningful contributions from all over the world. As a global standard, RISC-V is not controlled by any single company or country.

Development of RISC-V specifications is based on contributions that have been made available on a non-proprietary basis or cultivated in the open from RISC-V members evenly distributed in North America, Europe and Asia. RISC-V International does not provide chip design, open source cores, proprietary IP, or implementations, but rather publishes a set of commonly used global open standards. These published standards contain no more information than what is already published by proprietary architectures. The only difference is that the marketplace is allowed to use these standards without proprietary licenses from a controlling company. Competition does not happen at the standards level, but rather competition is at the implementation level.

RISC-V has ushered in tremendous potential for companies from all over the world to participate in the rapidly growing semiconductor space. Curtailing adoption of RISC-V for companies, foundries, government, and research institutions would deprive them of the ability to benefit from open standards they have helped fund and create, while allowing global competitors to race ahead with their own implementations.

Having access to open standards allows companies to innovate faster and spend their time creating differentiated products, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Just as companies everywhere have adopted Ethernet, HTTPS, JPEG, and USB standards, we’re seeing a similar trend for RISC-V as an open standard. The flexibility, extensibility, and scalability of RISC-V give developers unparalleled design freedom.

We invite you to join us at RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara CA Nov 7-8, 2023 to hear firsthand on the innovations, progress, and adoption of RISC-V.

To learn more about the history of RISC-V as an open standard, please visit: https://riscv.org/about/history/

To learn more about adoption of open standards, please see the 2023 State of Open Standards report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/state-of-open-standards-2023?hsLang=en