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Jon Taylor

Jon Taylor

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Product Manager

Jon has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and software industries. He has worked in a variety of technical and customer facing roles, from silicon verification through embedded software to technical marketing and product management.

Jon Taylor
3 June 2026

RISC-V profiles – why is RVA23 significant?

Ubuntu RISC-V

Introduction One of the important offerings of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the ability to customize and extend the base instruction set. An initial reaction to hearing this is often to worry about software portability and compatibility, since if every RISC-V CPU  offers a slightly different set of instructions, softwa ...

Jon Taylor
7 April 2026

RISC-V 101 – what is it and what does it mean for Canonical?

Ubuntu Article

In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical. ...