Comment by muyuu
5 hours ago
the main problem with RISC-V is also the main selling point: there is no single owner company behind steering development and making sweeping decisions
how will that pan out over the long term is really unclear and the reality is performance is actually catching up quickly
History tells us that open standards pretty much always beat out proprietary ones in the end.
You cannot buy the company backing RISC-V to take out the competition. And if a RISC-V company stumbles, the ecosystem carries on. But if even one RISC-V company is in the right place at the right time, RISC-V can surge ahead. It is hard to imagine it does not dominate eventually.