Given that moving to RISC-V will make people's life harder, these servers and their CPUs need to be unambiguously better than the x86 (and ARM) server s

Given that moving to RISC-V will make people's life harder, these servers and their CPUs need to be unambiguously better than the x86 (and ARM) server systems available at the same time. While this would generally be true, it misses an extremely important current factor. China really wants to find a way to circumvent US soft power limiting their future growth. The current tech embargo's by the US and friends are only going to make China try harder, and RISC-V seems perfectly positioned to become that circumvention measure. Note the plethora of Chinese RISC-V boards and chips coming out... which is exactly what they need to do (iterate as fast as possible).