[simcop2387]

> That is what is so important about it RISC-V is that it being an open ISA creates a commodity with true competition instead of competing oligopolies.

Not just that, but also by being fairly vanilla/boring about a lot of things in the ISA too. Thus letting the ISA itself be less an impediment to being compatible with ARM and x86_64 as far as behavior for memory ordering and such.