"Two hardware makers are planning to offer chips later this year featuring the RISC-V free and open architecture standard, joining the US $180 Linux-capable StarFive VisionFive RISC-V board that went on sale in January. In late June, Pine64 said it was designing a single-board computer for the market now dominated by Raspberry Pi, and Xcalibyte and DeepComputing said they would begin shipping RISC-V-based laptops at the end of the summer."

"The 12-year-old RISC-V computer instruction set architecture standard belongs to no one and everyone."

"The openness of the standard has also attracted markets facing limits on their use of Intel and Arm intellectual property: No government can place sanctions on open chip designs." Think: China, trade war, Russia, sanctions.

RISC-V guns for Raspberry Pi, legacy chips

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