It's not exactly easy -- more of "we know how to do it, given funding". Designing any fast modern chip -- such as the Apple M1 -- probably still costs around a

It's not exactly easy -- more of "we know how to do it, given funding". Designing any fast modern chip -- such as the Apple M1 -- probably still costs around a billion dollars. In the RISC-V world the company with the most funding so far is SiFive and they've had $190 million. Intel getting involved could change that very quickly.