Krste Asanović is an engineering academic from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He has written and co-authored many academic papers concerning computer architecture. , he is chairman of the Board of the RISC-V Foundation. Asanović was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) in 2014 ''for contributions to computer architecture''. He was elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to computer architecture, including the open RISC-V instruction set and Agile hardware". Asanović received a

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in computer science from Berkeley in 1998 under

John Wawrzynek John Wawrzynek is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is the Chief Faculty Director of the Berkeley ...

. In 2015, along with RISC-V researchers he co-founded

SiFive SiFive, Inc. is an United States, American Fabless manufacturing, fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processors and Integrated circuit, silicon chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Its product ...

, a fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, where he serves as its chief architect.

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