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RISC-V is just about at pi3 levels of performance so it's not really that good for end user stuff yet. Alibaba launched a new core recently that might improve things though.
On their servers? possibly. RISC-V is competitive when you stuff a bunch of cores into it and make it do basic server tasks that haven't gotten more complex over the years. And in AI, you may just need a cheap CPU to orchestrate your GPUs/NPUs so anything will work there.
I think we'll see m1+ levels of desktop performance on RISCV within the next 4 years though. trump will do wonders for the Chinese semiconductor industry.
Yeah, pi3 isn't quite there yet to drive a laptop. I expect RISCV to mature rapidly as well. There's going to be a ton of money poured into it, and it's always easier to do things the second time around. Apple has done a lot of the hard work designing the architecture o M series chips, and I imagine a lot of it will inspire RISCV designs now. This project in particular seems pretty promising as it specifically aims to deliver high performance designs https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan