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I hope so.

I don't know if RISC-V is the answer because it's RISC, but more open technology is always a good thing.

Not likely for long time , but could be a sleeper in case things go sideways down the line. We are not likely to be making them at home as other commentators suggest.. im expecting it to give arm a run for its money if politics gets really bad. The global south will likely make good use of it in that case. Also who knows. Linux was in this position a while.ago and that was an awesome surprise.

There's so much closed-source business software that only runs on x64 that x64 will be here for a very long time.

Will RISC-V overtake x86? maybe. Depends of enshitification of Intel. Board decisions in recent years weren't good according to semi-analisys.

Will it overtake ARM? No in a very long time. It has too much momentum to crash. And Risc-v doesn't have big bucks behind it.

its the future, but it won't overtake the rest for a very long time

For countries on the US export nono list it will be. As the US control of x86 via AMD and Intel sould be a concern.

You have one if you have Nvidia GPU or use Google TPU for machine learning so probably every time you use google. It's part of Mars exploration hardware. RISC-V is not marketed as consumer product but it's overtaking world more than people know. Every future business like IoT, AI, space exploration is using risc-v chips. Will it be adopted in household devices like mobile phones / computers / tablets ?
Maybe when Apple starts shipping it, why Apple ? Because they're only ones that can do it at massive scale, they switched architectures twice.
Just look up this job, to see where is the future.
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200571653/soc-small-cores-engineering-program-manager

Depends on how much brain power will flow into this, and how open this will be.

There was an article today that a bunch of top brains from Intel jumped ship and are going to work on RISC-V, and the Chinese government has an interest to further an architecture independent of X86 and ARM.

But those works will take a few years before they can be considered alternatives to ARM or even X86, even if they throw in loads of man-years.

No sooner than we would be able to make chips at home. Of course, it would be illegal at start, but eventually... Well, not in the nearest 2-3 decades.