RISC-V is an open source instruction set architecture, which allows people to build and customize computer processors for a wide range of needs. It's been praised for driving technological innovation in cutting-edge fields. And its popularity has grown in China in recent years. On Wednesday, Beijing hosted the third RISC-V Summit China. Liu Jiaxin reports.

Enthusiasts of the open-source instruction set RISC-V have gathered at this venue in the Chinese capital. Just a few years ago, the community in China was considered small. But these days, the one-thousand participants at this summit in Beijing fails to capture the true extent of its popularity in the country.

NI GUANGNAN Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering "The future of RISC-V is in China, and the development of China's semiconductor chip technology market is inseparable from it."

WU YANJUN Deputy Director, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science "With its technical and ecological advantages, RISC-V is becoming the third major architecture, following X86 and ARM."

CALISTA REDMOND CEO, RISC-V International "Especially over the last four and a half five years, we've witnessed quite a explosive growth, and we have now more than 3,820 members around across 70 different countries. Some 15%-17% our members are from China."

Leveraging its advantages, RISC-V has achieved remarkable success in driving the development of chips.

By the end of 2022, over 10-billion processor cores based on the RISC-V framework were recorded in applications connected to the Internet of Things. And this accomplishment was achieved in a mere twelve years, far shorter than the more than three decades it took for ARM to reach a comparable milestone.

Industry insiders say RISC-V has emerged as the first choice for chip architecture across many areas in China, including the Internet of Things, industrial and medical equipment, as well as intelligent and general automobiles.

LIU JIAXIN Beijing "I guess the idea of RISC-V is openness, freedom and cooperation, but this seems to contradict the strategic idea of some countries. Do you think the technological restrictions and sanctions imposed by the United States on China will ultimately affect the development of RISC-V?"

CALISTA REDMOND CEO, RISC-V International "I don't see the contradiction. Every country is excited to invest locally, invest in their digital economy. And in every case, countries want those investments to have global impact, to act on a global stage, to have global opportunity. And when you build on top of an open standard, you have the opportunity for global supply chain, global development partners and global market opportunities."

LIU JIAXIN Beijing "The summit shows how popular RISC-V is as a global open source instruction set architecture. That's especially so in China, with 7 million software developers, more than any other country. And China's share of the global chip design market is projected to rise from 9% in 2020 to 23% in 2030. That explains why open standards and collaboration in computing are much needed. Liu Jiaxin, CGTN, Beijing."