It’s exactly what will happen. This is a zero sum game. Hardware is not like software where open source can just easily be used by everyone. Hardware is expensi

It’s exactly what will happen. This is a zero sum game. Hardware is not like software where open source can just easily be used by everyone. Hardware is expensive and takes years to develop and iterate. Yes RISC-V is fun for various research projects, but the reality is any serious chip will have extreme requirements to be successful. One of them is complete software support (binaries, OSes, compilers, debuggers, JIT engines, etc). If you enable that, you enable a serious hardware company. China is missing the software bit to entice adoption of its chips. It’s a winner-takes-all situation, and they publicly talk about their intention to take over. Few outside of China win in that situation.