Keynote: Securing the Final Frontier: RISC-V® in Space and Critical Infrastructure

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Microchip claims RISC-V is production-ready in space: it ships a Polar Fire SOC (announced 2018, first silicon fabbed), centers HPSC on a SiFive X288 8-core vector processor, and adds CXL/PCI and a TSN Ethernet switch for accelerator, storage and sensor connectivity. NASA awards a $50 million HPSC contract and reports the program as a flagship delivered; software support exists and form factors (OpenVPX/SpaceVPX/VNX+/SOSA) are available for immediate satellite and critical‑infrastructure builds.

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1. 0:00Introduction to RISC-V in space
2. 2:30First RISC-V chip and ecosystem
3. 5:16NASA’s HPSC contract and processor
4. 7:41Software and system readiness
5. 9:06Space industry’s future growth
6. 11:34Critical infrastructure and RISC-V
7. 13:43Why RISC-V leads innovation

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