>The future is RISC-V
I hope this never comes to pass, because a RISC-V future is a Chinese future.
A Chinese future will not be kind to western ideals that most of us hold dear.
I hope this never comes to pass, because a RISC-V future is a Chinese future.
A Chinese future will not be kind to western ideals that most of us hold dear.
Now, yes, China will just espionage and kangaroo court their way through and around such legalities anyway, but nonetheless RISC-V is less effort for more reward for China if it becomes at least on par with x86 and ARM.
Put more basically, it's a matter of national security. China can have an entire RISC-V ecosystem indigenously, unlike x86 and ARM.
RISC-V by contrast is much, much harder for any given country to regulate because of its free and open nature. At most the US and UK can embargo individual developments made within their jurisdictions, but they can't regulate the entire architecture. RISC-V doesn't have a kill switch named Intel/AMD or ARM.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/arm-china-says-its-ousted...
Though the rp2040 has largely ended my cheap risc-v addiction