FOSS ISA. Steady progress towards real computers over the past 5 years.
All ARM processors (smartphones and tablets) are RISC, and x86 (Intel and AMD only allowed to make them, for paying license fees) is not RISC, the only 2 ISAs used for basically all devices everywhere, which resulted because having 30 different ISAs which were not compatible like in the 80s didn't work for markets... RISC-V is also RISC but a newer type, and has less barriers to entry and might increase competition because you don't need a license to use it.
‘Increasing trade barriers US-China will accelarate development of RISC-V in China.’ Nice, since all my devices I've bought in the last couple years that are actually decent are Chinese companies, since US companies stopped making better computers in around 2010, causing detriment, and the sentiment of F*** you US companies.
RISC-V is managed by a governing body based in Switzerland.
This guy from Explaining Computers got his degree in electronics economics or something, he said.
We can also point out that RISC-V devices will need software. Software that is FOSS can easily be rewritten for a different ISA using AI. Closed source can't.
He estimates 2 years until viable RISC-V competitive products. Then incumbent companies will have to re-start innovation to compete.