| >is very much not a foregone conclusion It may very well be by now. RISC-V already has the momentum behind it. The investment is there, and it's huge, both from governments and private. Major design wins. Multiple incoming very high performance implementations from multiple vendors. On the software side, I have never seen a new architecture's software ecosystem grow as quickly as RISC-V's has. >history is littered with ISAs that were supposed to be the Next Big Thing You're well aware how RISC-V is better suited for success. Both technical, and non-technical aspects. It has the mojo. I remember when PowerPC and ARM got their moments. This is an order of magnitude bigger. No ISA has ever managed to rally this much support, broad and wide. It's not even close. I'm telling you: x86 is finally going down. RISC-V is inevitable. |