RISC-V (riscv64)

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The advantage of RISC-V is its elegantly simple open ISA:  that's not "riding the wave of open-source popularity":  it's a new open instruction set architecture that any cpu factory can play with, without licensing deals!   NVidia (who bought ARM) cannot make that claim.  Removing the licensing aspect lowers cost of experimentation, leading to more innovation: already MicroMagic played with it and created a 5Ghz cpu!.  Assembly programming will be simpler on RISC-V.  Not that I plan on learning RISC-V to that extent; but every dollar I spend is an endorsement on reality, and I want to back the horses that are best for humanity over horses that just look like they're winning the race.