> It's possible there are other special purpose chips not widely available for sale, or not advertised to English speaking customers, but I haven't found much e

> It's possible there are other special purpose chips not widely available for sale, or not advertised to English speaking customers, but I haven't found much evidence of them. Take any established Chinese IT company, there are chances they are working on RISC-V based SoC or two. Alibaba - CK902, Huami - Huangshan No. 1, not talking about less known at the West vendors. But it seems there are some considerations among established IT companies about not announcing RISC-V products very loud, especially in English. > The Western executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, told us, “A lot of the biggest companies doing this are being very discrete indeed: perhaps they cannot afford to upset Arm.” He said they fear being told by Arm, “‘Oh, the core for your new smartphone is two weeks late.’” https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334001 https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334...