This is where part of the industry is going. There’s a high demand for cores with low licensing costs. Think of how many cores you have in your cell phone or laptop… dozens? Hundreds? (Honestly I have no idea.) The CPU and GPU are just a small part of it. A company that makes baseband processors, SSDs/HDDs, GPUs, network equipment, etc. needs a bunch of cores. The cores aren’t big or powerful, they don’t need to be. RISC-V means those cores have zero licensing costs for the ISA, and you get good toolchain support.