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Ironically, Intel is throwing its hat in with SiFive's and will be manufacturing high-performance RISC-V cores in 2022.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16780/intel-to-create-riscv-d...

The audacity of saying this:

You may have heard that it’s no big deal to port your code from one architecture to another. However, porting takes time and money. It’s a complicated, intense process. Plus, ARM doesn’t run every software program out there, so when you’re ready to add new functionality from Intel, you’ll be stuck with the limitation of ARM and the long-term cost and hassle of managing multiple code bases.

Then turning around and fabbing riscv cores is pretty sickening. If I was at SiFive I would be unenthusiastic about having Intel as a partner.

Are they manufacturing the risc-v cores to be a drop in replacement for their current cores? Seems a little presumptuous to assume that.

I'd guess they might introduce riscv where it can compete with ARM, but not where it can compete with x86

Not only Risc-V, but Arm chips as well with their partnership with Qualcomm. I resl’y like their IFS initiative.

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