As people have pointed out. RISC-V didn't exist when they created the IPhone and wasn't even ready when they did the M chips. >so I doubt a switch to RISC-V is

As people have pointed out. RISC-V didn't exist when they created the IPhone and wasn't even ready when they did the M chips. >so I doubt a switch to RISC-V is imminent I never claimed it was. My point was that Apple is not giving much money to ARM. So it really doesn't matter all that much. My point was not that Apple would adopt RISC-V but rather that RISC-V would eat ARM market from below, and partly from the DC too. The reason the original IPhone was ARM is because ARM was strong in the mobile market as they had many license in the mobile market already during the 90s and their chips were often together with mobile chips on an SoC. But ARM already controls the mobile market almost totally, so there isn't much upside there, but lots of downside.