>The cost of developing a competitive CPU is high It can be dodged by either licensing some of the hundreds of commercial core designs available, or by using o

>The cost of developing a competitive CPU is high It can be dodged by either licensing some of the hundreds of commercial core designs available, or by using one of the (several) available open source RISC-V implementations. Other competitive ISAs also have a few -albeit not anywhere as many- open source implementations, but there's no dodging the ISA royalty fee on these.