[brucehoult]

That's not true, for many reasons.

- RISC-V is heavily used in embedded applications everywhere, to the point that Arm has announced they're stopping developing the Cortex-M line and sticking with what they currently have

- at least in the case of China and Russia, they already have machines using ISAs they developed and own themselves with higher performance than currently-available RISC-V

- RISC-V is not a "CPU technology" (that is, CPU micro-architecture) or a chipmaking technology. It's just a language for writing recipes, and says nothing at all about the medium or technology used to record and distribute and follow those recipes.

- within the next 12-24 months, RISC-V chips designed and made in the West will match or exceed those designed in China as many top CPU designers joined or founded RISC-V companies around 2021/2 (and Intel's ex "Royal Core" team in 2024).