was recently posted. no datasheet available, just a generic website with a lot of unsubstantiated promises and an email harvester. basically marketing spam until some actual data is available.
RISC-V is extensible and keeps developing new official extensions that add more and more instructions. The RISC-V baseline doesn't even have integer multiply or divide!
The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.
The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."
Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.
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RISC: "Reduced instruction set computer"
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The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."
Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.