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RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

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·October 30, 2025
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axblount

What's the advantage of standardizing through ISO/IEC? Better adoption in industry?

Seems like this would take away a lot of power from RISC-V International. But I don't know much about this process.

boredatoms

Maybe it helps get government contracts

“We’re standards compliant”

userbinator

It's not like ARM and x86 are standardised by ISO either.

signa11

they are de-facto…

kouteiheika

It ticks a checkbox. That's it. Some organizations and/or governments might have rules that emphasize using international standards, and this might help with it.

I just hope it's going to be a "throw it over the fence and standardize" type of a deal, where the actual standardization process will still be outside of ISO (the ISO process is not very good - not my words, just ask the members of the C++ committee) and the text of the standard will be freely licensed and available to everyone (ISO paywalls its standards).