On: RISC-V Pushes into the Mainstream

[klelatti]

> would much rather build hardware on their own terms

Most of these firms are licensing a core from a third party. There is no such thing as ‘on their own terms’.

[smoldesu → klelatti]

Not Apple or many of the smaller manufacturers. Even still, the ones who do want to license core designs still have the option to do so with RISC-V.