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by spiralpolitik 1014 days ago
The big part is royalty-free open-source licenses. If you don't want to pay ARM for an ISA and RISC-V is good enough for your needs then RISC-V might be for you.

Plus there are limitations on which countries the latest ARM designs can be shipped to. RISC-V has no such limitation. The RISC-V Foundation is based in Switzerland and so isn't subject to US trade sanctions.