They are basically acquiring talent and/or preexisting IP. RISC-V is free but implementations are the sole IP of the company.
Implementing ARM and RISC-V decoders might depend on licensing fine print for each licensee
This. SiFive, for example, is a proprietory core design based on the open source RISC V spec. Hazard3 [0] on the other hand, is an open source core design.
[0] https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3
This. SiFive, for example, is a proprietory core design based on the open source RISC V spec. Hazard3 [0] on the other hand, is an open source core design.
[0] https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3