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RISC-V is doing great in microcontrollers. From 10 cent Cortex-M0 competitors by WCH etc, to dual core WiFi/BLE enabled devices by Espressif etc, competing with Cortex M33. On Embedded Linux class devices the ARM Cortex Axx reign supreme, until one hits X86 industrial PC territory. I think these trends will continue, but RISC-V will likely get stronger in all of these as time goes on.

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Note that, other than not having an FPU, the "Hazard3" RISC-V core in the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350) is very competitive with the latest Arm Cortex M33 in the same chip, despite being the part time (purely at home) work of a single engineer. And fully open source with a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Yeah and this was RPi first step into RISC-V. It seems to have been quite successful? So perhaps in a couple of generations from now we will see a pure RISC-V chip from them?

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