They pretty much have to do something about ARM; x86 has seen its peak. By fostering a broad and robust RISC-V ecosystem they will help create some serious comp

They pretty much have to do something about ARM; x86 has seen its peak. By fostering a broad and robust RISC-V ecosystem they will help create some serious competitors for ARM and challenge the whole notion of paying licensing and royalties for hardware IP (see also Thunderbolt 3). They are a product-centric company that is building towards being the non-geopolitical-powderkeg fab of choice. ARM has no plans of making their own fab, nor is going to be capitalized well-enough to do so even if their IPO goes above expectations. That leaves them reliant on outpacing innovation from open source hardware. In principal this seems like a decent state of play that will probably accelerate RISC-V to its potential and make ARM better in the process. >"IFS is, Intel boasts, the only foundry optimised for x86, Arm and RISC-V." Typical Intel marketing BS. Some things will never change.