> x86, ARM aren't going anywhere x86's have never been a thing in MCU's, so ARM has more to lose. > Almost all of those points are true of any mainstream arch

> x86, ARM aren't going anywhere x86's have never been a thing in MCU's, so ARM has more to lose. > Almost all of those points are true of any mainstream architecture No, that isn't true at all, not when you consider the end-game: they are not open source, they are not simple enough for that to make a difference, and they'll therefore never attract the collective creativity. Maybe some other new architecture will though. Everybody should make their own bets though. > People on this website just hype it to outrageous levels Though RISC-V certainly is in the hype phase this is also entirely justified. From that point of view it seems you have an invested interest in some other architecture, and see that investment threatened.