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I'm hopeful that RISC-V will eventually become a viable alternative to ARM. An instruction set anyone can use and improve upon without paying any kind of licensing fee. Probably too much to hope, but it'd be interesting if AMD and/or Intel started working on their own RISC-V chips and then convinced Microsoft to dust off it's RISC support for Windows. I figure if they could get within about 80% of the performance of Apple's M-Series chips without having to integrate the RAM and GPU, while maintaining the energy savings, you would be laying the foundation to attract gamers and others, maybe putting the final nail in the coffin of x86.