>He derives the case for the chip and then spends the rest of the article annoyed that the chip exists.

>This is almost satirical.

That's all that needs to be said.

It's like comparing Unity and Godot. Unity is better in every single way but one, you have to license it from a very poorly ran company.

You don't "own" your games, they ship with black box spyware. The pricing for using it can change from day to day.

I swear the Unity C level employs a Magic 8 Ball and consults it for key management decisions.

If you need to edit the Unity Engine source code your looking at a secret additional licensing fee which is certainly unaffordable for hobbyist and most indies.

Vs Godot which is completely free under the MIT license.

Everything about the above can be said for ARM as well.

RISC-V is free for everyone to play with. If you think it sucks you can always fork it and jerryrig it to work on existing hardware.

If you have money you can even get custom hardware for your forked RISC-V.

I very much enjoyed reading this article, I'm optimistic in seeing what OPs students come up with. This is life changing technology that's essentially available to all.