India Paves Dual RISC-V Tracks with C-DAC and Startup Silicon

India’s RISC-V ecosystem is gaining strength through two parallel efforts, one led by C-DAC, the other emerging from a new wave of chip startups.

By Yashasvini Razdan, EETimes | December 8, 2025

A global move toward customizable processor architectures is creating room for India to push into RISC-V, with government labs and young chip firms taking different paths. India is now coupling a state-funded processor effort with a parallel rise of startups using RISC-V for embedded and IoT designs.

The global RISC-V market is no longer a niche experiment. The RISC-V Market Analysis 2024 report by the SHD group forecasted that this market will climb to $2.95 billion by 2028, growing at almost 30% every year. Most of this momentum is coming from the embedded and IoT side, where engineers want more control over the microarchitecture and fewer licensing hurdles. Asia-Pacific is leading that shift, with China driving the volume and countries like India using RISC-V to build custom silicon without paying for proprietary cores.

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