No offense but, hoping... for what? That Qualcomm will produce locked down RISC-V based chips with their own cores, without open documentation or support, backe

No offense but, hoping... for what? That Qualcomm will produce locked down RISC-V based chips with their own cores, without open documentation or support, backed by their patent portfolio, with difficult to use BSPs and various proprietary extensions requiring SDK licenses (Hexagon)? The same Qualcomm we love? For software programmers, you might as well replace 'aarch64-linux-unknown-gcc' with 'riscv64-linux-unknown-gcc' and they won't notice much else, but that was never the real issue. Qualcomm already has control over their products. The value offering from them has never been an ARM chip on its own. That is kind of the problem, in a sense. The distinction between them using RISC-V and ARM is one without a difference, more or less, especially in a market like servers (where margins are plentiful as opposed to razor thin, so BOM conservatism and paying for an ARM ISA license isn't as much a pain point.) If they don't feel they can enter the market at this point -- a point where ARM and they definitively have real competitive silicon offerings, if Centriq is to be believed -- the issue almost definitely has nothing to do with an ISA, and everything to do with business/their market outlook. If they re-enter later, even with a different ISA -- it won't be the reason. And even if it came true, won't change the reasons people hate Qualcomm.