\chapter{History}

\section{Research Funding at UC Berkeley}

Development of the RISC-V architecture and implementations has been
partially funded by the following sponsors.

\begin{itemize}
\item {\bf Par Lab:} Research supported by Microsoft (Award \#024263)
  and Intel (Award \#024894) funding and by matching funding by
  U.C. Discovery (Award \#DIG07-10227). Additional support came from
  Par Lab affiliates Nokia, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Samsung.

\item {\bf Project Isis:} DoE Award DE-SC0003624.

\item {\bf ASPIRE Lab}: DARPA PERFECT program, Award HR0011-12-2-0016.
  DARPA POEM program Award HR0011-11-C-0100.  The Center for Future
  Architectures Research (C-FAR), a STARnet center funded by the
  Semiconductor Research Corporation.  Additional support from ASPIRE
  industrial sponsor, Intel, and ASPIRE affiliates, Google, Huawei,
  Nokia, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Samsung.

\end{itemize}

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