> For servers, really? I don't get it, they could just use RISC-V.
x86 is a mature established architecture, RISC-V is not. Indeed I think the privledged mode architecture is still under development (i.e. what you required to run an actual OS rather than just embedded applications). I'm sure there are many other features x86 possesses than RISC-V lacks too.
I would have thought commercial RISC-V will be IoT/Embedded applications first. Fewer features required, lower costs (less to loose if it doesn't work out) and fairly static software supplied by a single or small group of vendors.
x86 is a mature established architecture, RISC-V is not. Indeed I think the privledged mode architecture is still under development (i.e. what you required to run an actual OS rather than just embedded applications). I'm sure there are many other features x86 possesses than RISC-V lacks too.
I would have thought commercial RISC-V will be IoT/Embedded applications first. Fewer features required, lower costs (less to loose if it doesn't work out) and fairly static software supplied by a single or small group of vendors.