[klelatti]

Completely agree with this and with your other comments in this thread.

There simply isn't that much money in designing cores. The money is in selling SoCs or devices. Arm at least has made increasingly high quality cores available at reasonable prices to all comers. A future where Arm's business is made unviable is not necessarily better for consumers.

You can license RISC-V cores from Si-Five today but they if reports are correct they were in discussions to sell to Intel. If that were to happen who knows what would happen to their offering. There will be others of course but as you say it's not obvious that what they offer will be any better that what Arm offers today.

And for the foreseeable future Arm is immune to takeover by any of its deep-pocketed customers.

I'm very happy that RISC-V exists from a number of perspectives but there needs to be a realistic assessment of its potential impact.

[GoOnThenDoTell]

The Intel sale didn’t go through

[klelatti]

You’re right but the point is that Intel was very interested. If you’re relying on cores from firms that are attractive to SoC / device makers then there is no guarantee those cores will continue to be available post acquisition.