Comment by rollcat
Correct me if I am wrong, but in RISC-V's case, you would be licensing the core design alone, not a license for the ISA plus the core on top.
Right now, AFAIK only Apple is serious about designing their own ARM cores, while there are multiple competing implementations for RISC-V (which are still way behind both ARM and x86, but slooowly making their way).
VERY long-term, I expect RISC-V to become more competitive, unless whoever-owns-ARM-at-the-time adjusts strategy.
Either way, I'm glad to see competition after decades of Intel/x86 dominance.
Qualcomm has a serious development effort in their Oryon CPU cores. Marvel had ThunderX from the Cavium acquisition, but they seem to have discontinued development.