Sorry. God save the ARM It's just an instruction stream There is no future In England's dreaming Don't be told what you want to want to

Sorry. God save the ARM It's just an instruction stream There is no future In England's dreaming Don't be told what you want to want to And don't be told what you want to need There's no future, no future No future for you If you'd said RISC-V has no future in 2021 you might have had some argument. But then the money and experienced talent started pouring in. Tenstorrent "Ascalon" 8-wide core comparable to Apple M1 or AMD Zen3 is taping out right about now, they want to see it widely used, including in laptops (which I'd expect to see next year). That's five years or so behind Apple, but pretty close behind Qualcomm. They say they'll catch Apple / Intel / AMD performance in 2027. That'll be cores. SoCs and stuff you can buy in a shop will be a year or two later. But this decade. There are a number of others hard on their heels, including open-source XiangShan from China. Will they be running Windows or MacOS? No. But they'll be running Android, Fedora/RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian and they'll be in data centres and phone and tablets. Heck ... there are new phones introduced in 2025 with only Arm A53 cores from 2012 e.g. using the Mediatek Helio G50 SoC with 8x A53 such as the Infinix Smart 9 HD, Tecno Spark Go 1S, Tecno POP 9 4G (Indian model). The majority of RISC-V SBCs and laptops for sale at the moment are similar specs to those phones, but the better ones are 2x as fast with another factor of 2x or 4x coming in the next 12 months. > [RISC-V] peaked in 2022, and has long since run out of steam. Not a chance.