I believe this is incorrect. It seems that there is lots of confusion related to RISC-V. Only RISC-V ISA and some simple (and relatively inefficient) architect

I believe this is incorrect. It seems that there is lots of confusion related to RISC-V. Only RISC-V ISA and some simple (and relatively inefficient) architectural designs are free and without royalties. But when someone develops efficient RISC-V microarchitecture they are not going to provide it free. If some company develops RISC-V based architecture that is competitive with AMD,Intel or ARM, they are going to ask good money for it.