OpenPOWER was created to sell chips more then anything else. But many people don't just want some stanard 'high performance' chip. There are many different kind

OpenPOWER was created to sell chips more then anything else. But many people don't just want some stanard 'high performance' chip. There are many different kinds of high-performance chip. A high-performance chip, for a car, a gaming computer, a AI chip or a cloud chip that runs VM are all different. There is simply not that amount of options in the POWER market. Its a restrictive set of vendors. Pretty much every new startup designing high performance chips picked RISC-V. And they optimize their chips for specific use-cases. In addition, the software ecosystem for RISC-V is arguable already better then POWER. And many companies and universities are working together on making it first class. Android is going to RISC-V, it will never be on POWER. So if you were to design something for consumers, not going with RISC-V would be crazy. RISC-V is also evolving far more quickly. There are like 80 working groups working on improvements all in the open. The amount of companies working on POWER is tiny in comparison.