> Is this really already an industry trend? Probably not, or not yet. > It feels more like some parties experimenting with the platform, not necessarily with

> Is this really already an industry trend? Probably not, or not yet. > It feels more like some parties experimenting with the platform, not necessarily with intentions to move to it wholesale at any point in the future. Some big players are moving / have moved to it already. Western Digital is already replacing its ARM HDD controllers with RISC-V chips, nvidia is replacing some chips in their GPUs with RISC-V chips, etc. These are all shipping products. If you need a chip to do something relatively simple and low cost, you are probably already better off with RISC-V today than you are with ARM mainly because its cheaper and has no licensing issues. I don't know of any big player doing anything complex with RISC-V yet. There is no bit manipulation ISA, no vector ISA, no encryption ISA, ... and many other things that you would need for a general purpose SoC that's not only cheap but also competitive in performance and TDP with ARM.