I've only recently become aware of risc-v, but it was in the context of FPGAs. I've been following FPGAs for years, and recently the open tooling is good enough

I've only recently become aware of risc-v, but it was in the context of FPGAs. I've been following FPGAs for years, and recently the open tooling is good enough for cheap FPGAs that I'm seeing a lot of projects starting to use them. You can get an FPGA that can simulate a risc-v for $6 in small batches. While you could probably get a much cheaper ARM cpu that is way more powerful, you have an FPGA that can do things that no comparably priced cpu can do, and change it without replacing the chip. Personally I think having a license free cpu will be an integral part in continuing to make FPGAs more and more viable, and I think we're going to start seeing them in places that no one ever really imagined 15 years ago. https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/how-a-microcontroller-hiding-in-a-usb-port-became-an-fpga-hiding-in-the-same/ https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/how-a-microcontroller-hiding...