Why do you think that? In which market? Who's going to pay to market it to SoC vendors and provide the very necessary pre-sales work? You aren't expecting it to put a dent in Intel, are you?
On the software side you've got GCC, LLVM, core boot, Rust, and Google Go, all going there. There are thousands of Fedora and Debian packages already ported.
Several companies exist to support real world implementation by others - they'll help you put RISC V into whatever SoC or system you want.
This is all falling into place for an instruction set that has no production silicon yet. It's going to go somewhere. All it needs is finalized specs and some actual hardware.
Having said all that, one thing desperately missing is a free GPU. If SoCs for the public do arrive soon they will have to come from someone with graphics IP.
I don't expect Intel to be directly affected for a good while, but they will be missing out on whatever markets it takes for the next few years. I do see ARM in grave danger, but not immediately.
I wonder if the Larrabee approach would work here: many simple RISC-V cores running in parallel, with wide vector units and a little specialized hardware (eg texture sampling).
There's no shortage of those ..
> It's going to go somewhere
.. why? Could you expand on the "step 2: ???" of the world domination plan?
Some companies are designing RISC V into their products (nVidia, Samsung) but not for user facing applications yet. There are designs in process to bring about something like the raspberry pi, which will bring it to the masses (not the consumer masses). There is a ton of corporate and academic support behind the effort.
But let me offer simple slightly plausible scenarios: What if Google ported Android to it? What if Apple brought iOS to it? What if some other new thing that takes off is based on it?
> What if Google ported Android to it?
OK. So .. what advantages does this offer? Why would they do that? Why would manufacturers choose the unknown option?
> What if Apple brought iOS to it?
Why would they do that? What advantages does it offer?
I'm just asking for the really basic features/advantages/benefits stuff. Preferably including an explanation of why said advantages can't be cloned or overtaken by Intel or ARM.
Having said that, RISC V doesn't need something like that to happen. It's going places already because it's better in a number of ways.
Here, watch this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-R...
And notice that they indicate a desire to run a full OS and apps in the future. Tell me that doesn't seem like a step toward Tegra with RISC V.
And then there is Samsung aiming at IoT with it. And others...