adoption of ARM just started to pick up in server & laptop market, it could be a nice alternative to x86, yet short sighted decisions like this from ARM is going to cause huge uncertainties.
RISC-V is great, I am all for it, but let's be realistic, many people including myself have been waiting for 2 decades to see the current upward trend of ARM in servers & laptops, how many extra years we will have to wait for RISC-V to catch up and get to ARM's current position? An extra 5-10 years? Intel must be laughing!
As an ex-ARM & ex-Qualcomm employee - middle finger for both companies, you greedy licensing bitch.