By Kate Yuan
China Mobile announced that its One OS IoT operating system has joined the China RISC-V Alliance (CRVA) and it will work with other members to promote the innovation and ecosystem of RISC-V in China.
China Mobile Internet of Things Center, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Mobile launched in 2020 its One OS as an operating system for IoT applications, which supports mainstream CPU architectures such as ARM Cortex-M/R/A, MIPS, and RISC-V.
CRVA is an affiliate of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Established in September 2018, the alliance is committed to promoting RISC-V-related technologies and products. So far it has 147 members.
RISC-V is an open-source instruction system designed at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. Developers can achieve different chip innovations with the help of the RISC-V instruction set, which has attracted more and more attention and applications for its full openness, low threshold, and free use.
The strong development momentum of RISC-V has reportedly brought challenges to X86 and Arm as a new force in the CPU field. It has changed brought new opportunities in the business model and architectural innovation in the semiconductor industry. Up to December 2021, there were accumulatively over two billion RISC-V-based chip outputs around the world.
