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2026-06-19
Jon Peddie Research
The Kendryte K210 is the chip that first proved RISC-V could run AI inference at the edge and it did it in 2018, before most of the industry was paying attention. It is the world’s first RISC-V-based edge AI chip, with 0.8 TOPS KPU, 0.3 W, TSMC 28 nm, dual-core 64-bit, and built-in audio and vision accelerators. The Sipeed Maix boards that followed put it in the hands of a million developers. Then