Re: still not getting it
Who cares about x86? I have never not once designed a product with an x86 in it, nor have most EEs.
The most important chips are right where ARM started. Deeply embedded. No matter what you design, even say a PC peripheral or a gadget of some sort, odds are, it will need a microcontroller. RISC-V offers a price advantage and an extremely competitive performance and power efficiency. Furthermore if you need some sort of special fixed silicon integrated, it's much easier to commission RISC-V embedded to control it as opposed to anything else.
ARM has fought its way up from the tiniest of devices, from being the heart of Gameboy Advance and Psion Revo, from being just thrown in as control logic into USB WLAN Adapters and the like, USB memory sticks, SD-Cards etc. This is the big field that RISC-V is likely to conquer. Odds are, you have dozens or hundreds of ARM devices in your possession without you having the faintest idea, and this is the sort of market that RISC-V targets aggressively.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
