Strypey<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/westerndigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternDigital</span></a> Corp., one of the largest makers of data-storage devices, plans to use the technology in some products and has open-sourced its designs. <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/alibaba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alibaba</span></a> has announced a chip based on RISC#V and several universities have published open-source designs.</p><p>There are 200 <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> members of the <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/riscvfoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCvFoundation</span></a>, a non-profit group created in 2015 to promote the use of the instruction set. An Indian project developed six processors using the technology."</p>