Nifty. I love the idea of risc v but fear there is no real consumer market for it that isn't better served by arm though.
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Soon, my friend, soon.
The biggest advantage is that there is no royalties, like the ARM requires.
I'm not sure that's big enough of an advantage though. I hope it is but history shows that most people are more than willing to pay for convenience over freedom.
If you license a design from someone you'll still be paying something. Sure there are also free implementations but they are aimed at microcontrollers, you won't get any server class chips for free.