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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
22 June 2026

How to use RISC-V custom instructions with Ubuntu

Silicon Article

Introduction My previous blog talked about the importance of instruction set standardization for ecosystem stability and growth through the use of profiles. And standardization is indeed important, but since one of RISC-V’s great benefits is the ability to customize the instruction set, we should also consider how to support that ability. ...

Jon Taylor
3 June 2026

RISC-V profiles – why is RVA23 significant?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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. ...