RV needs an ecosystem to survive. Google can afford the hockey-stick dev costs, but 95% of the rest of OEMs cannot. Hopefully Google makes their tooling open source, that would really help shave years of RV adoption.
For the most part, all it took to put ARM on the board was to get it's core designs on newer silicon. RISC-V will likely be the same, with the added advantage that most software projects already support RISC arches through ARM.
RISC-V feels like it's coming around to the same track. Much like how Broadcom had to shoulder the software support of the Raspberry Pi, Qualcomm et. al are going to have to do roughly the same thing now. If the support on top of those cores is good enough, it won't really matter who makes the chip (a-la ARM's ecosystem). The current cores are certainly on the simple side, but that's the name of the RISC game. Simply having a capable microcontroller spec is enough to dent ARM's market share.
ARM was already a magnitude or two more successful than RISC-V before the first Raspberry Pi even came out.
But if you are still going to make that claim about ARM success in 2000 vs RISC-V now, then better source the data to support it.
0. https://riscv.org/news/2022/07/europe-steps-up-as-risc-v-shi...
The subject was software ecosystem, and there was not much of an ecosystem for ARM until Raspberry Pi happened and the community jumped on it.
RISC-V ecosystem might not have ARM parity yet, but it is way further along than ARM was at the time Raspberry Pi launched.
I would argue RISC-V ecosystem is where ARM was barely 5 years ago, and catching up fast.
My prediction? ARM's software ecosystem will be in the rear mirror within 2 years.
> My prediction? ARM's software ecosystem will be in the rear mirror within 2 years.
Why? To be honest I find the somewhat religious level fanaticism related to RISC-v somewhat baffling
I was replying to:
>yet look how long it took for it to become (somewhat) competitive in the PC and server markets.
As for:
>Why? To be honest I find the somewhat religious level fanaticism related to RISC-v somewhat baffling
I won't entertain the question, due to the loaded tail.
[0] there might alteady be less smart watches that are already running RISC-V but we can't know since they are closed.