[rwmj]

But only a few companies (two? Arm and Apple?) develop new Arm designs, whereas anyone is free to develop new RISC-V designs.

[bigfishrunning]

Most of those new Risc-V designs Are on the extreme low end; not a bad thing, but there's not a ton of high performance Risc-V stuff happening.

It's more likely to fill in the ESP32 niche then the ARM one

[brucehoult]

> but there's not a ton of high performance Risc-V stuff happening.

Uhhh ... yes, there is.

Several companies designing very high performance RISC-V were founded in 2021 or so. Most of them have top designers fresh from designing the latest Apple, Intel, AMD chips and they are aiming to match current x86 and Apple performance.

You'll see their products in the market around 2026.