Key quote from an excellent and well balanced article. > I don’t believe the success of RISC-V is because it is cheap or lower cost. If you just want to do the

Key quote from an excellent and well balanced article. > I don’t believe the success of RISC-V is because it is cheap or lower cost. If you just want to do the same as you can get with an Arm core, you absolutely should just buy an Arm core because it’s so well verified. It’s so well designed. It’s exactly what you want. The only reason for using RISC-V is because you want the freedom to change it and add your own things to it. RISC-V is great and important as an enabler of innovation and experimentation. As a like for like replacement for the cores in your smartphone less so.