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Intel can't "disappear" RISC-V anymore than Apple or Microsoft could "disappear" FreeBSD or OpenBSD. The licensing of RISC-V permits and encourages reuse freely. There are already other established vendors in the market with RISC-V based designs aside from SiFive. That's entirely the point of...

Depends what software I guess? No wait, if it were just software, why did Itanium fail so horrendously? It could run Linux, Windows, OpenVMS, what more could anyone possibly need? </sarcasm> At least RISC-V seems off to a better start with Linux, FreeBSD, and most recently OpenBSD announcing...

Intel making a bid to buy SiFive might be good for the two of them, but I can't help but wonder how it will be good for RISC-V? SiFive has already publicly prototyped 5nm RISC-V chips via TSMC (also see: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openfive-tapes-out-5nm-risc-v-soc ). Meanwhile, Micro...