> This makes RISC V completely obsolete since the x86 ecosystem is obviously much more mature.
While I'd really love to agree with you, the IPC of a RISC-V chip can annihilate an x86 machine on equivalently advanced manufacturing node. It's performance-per-watt can reach up to 10x efficiency over x86 in the right situations, and pretty much all of the cool stuff we like in x86 can be added as an ISA extension.
If we're headed to a RISC/low-power computing future, RISC-V will be the future people's champion. x86 will be a legacy compatibility mode that we use for games and "retrocomputing", likely.
While I'd really love to agree with you, the IPC of a RISC-V chip can annihilate an x86 machine on equivalently advanced manufacturing node. It's performance-per-watt can reach up to 10x efficiency over x86 in the right situations, and pretty much all of the cool stuff we like in x86 can be added as an ISA extension.
If we're headed to a RISC/low-power computing future, RISC-V will be the future people's champion. x86 will be a legacy compatibility mode that we use for games and "retrocomputing", likely.