Hehe I wonder if this headline is meant to rebuff stats emerging about RISC-V sales?
- Alibaba's T-Head have sold over 2.5billion APU-level open source RISC-V XuanTie chips
- Andes Technology, by the end of last year, had sold 8billion and
- SiFive another couple of billion. (And there are lots of other companies selling RISC-V chips.)
Arm have already had to change their business practice in response to RISC-V MPUs -
"It's said that ARM had canceled license fees for the companies with financing amount lower than $5 million, to compete with its opponent RISC-V on the aspects of pricing," - Geng Bo, deputy secretary-general of the China Solid State Lighting Alliance
There will come a point where the proprietary business model simply won't be able to compete against the open source rivals. And that moment might come sooner than people imagine.