RISC-V doesn't directly help with any of these concerns. But it is an alternative to ARM, and has a governance model that parties interested in open standards

RISC-V doesn't directly help with any of these concerns. But it is an alternative to ARM, and has a governance model that parties interested in open standards might be more willing to join. Right now, ARM CPUs on the low end have little standardization at the SOC level. They have a few cores from ARM, (what you think of as the main CPU, maybe a GPU, maybe a low end micro for power management, and a couple more for realtime tasks). Then you have the non-ARM IP in the form of image processors for cameras, video decoding, etc. The SoC mfg is responsible for gluing together all these parts, and every mfg has their own proprietary take on the process, meaning a different initialization sequence, different firmware layouts, etc. The SoC mfg's goal is to ship a product. It isn't to define a standard, and since there is no standard to follow, 'anything' goes. Because ARM costs enough that it isn't viable to do a SoC layout you aren't going to ship millions of the chip, academic research (where the seeds for standards are often planted) just doesn't happen.