this person makes one important point with regards to the reasons for adaptability of RISC-v.
X86 is a monopoly of the US government via intel and amd. they can literally force these companies to pull out of a nation, crippling their entire life through and through.
people do not like that believe it or not. its not fun having the USA hold your country hostage because you do not have alternatives. ARM is the same so RISC-V is a good contender to get behind for entire nations because they can fall back on this and besides, if there is no monopoly of x86/arm in the first place because RISC-v or some other architecture is common, the american armtwisting is reduced as the attack surface would be smaller.
china, russia, iran, india can develop their own thing, separate or together but not dependent on american generosity that can turn hostile, as it has in the past
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For a great overview of the SiFive that's highlighted in this article, check out Explaining Computers' video from May: https://youtu.be/4PoWAsBOsFs
tl;dr the dual core processor is quite slow, but relatively stable running the software that can compile for it so far in Linux.
It seems like Vision Five is at least pushing things forward a bit on the software side, unlike some of the other hardware manufacturers of SBCs.
this person makes one important point with regards to the reasons for adaptability of RISC-v. X86 is a monopoly of the US government via intel and amd. they can literally force these companies to pull out of a nation, crippling their entire life through and through.
people do not like that believe it or not. its not fun having the USA hold your country hostage because you do not have alternatives. ARM is the same so RISC-V is a good contender to get behind for entire nations because they can fall back on this and besides, if there is no monopoly of x86/arm in the first place because RISC-v or some other architecture is common, the american armtwisting is reduced as the attack surface would be smaller.
china, russia, iran, india can develop their own thing, separate or together but not dependent on american generosity that can turn hostile, as it has in the past