You are right, it is more like 13 years ago, right before the first Raspberry PI that fire up the demand and interest of ARM chips outside phones.
RISC-V is more inline with AMD64/Itanium. They have no demand and interest heavily leveraging the designs toward phones. Rather, they are purely aimed at Datacenter/Desktops/Laptops/etc.
April 2003 -> Release of AMD64 processors
Image made by September 2003 -> Image available to users by October 2003 -> First AMD64 Windows Beta
April 2005 -> First AMD64 Feature Complete Windows
And, the current Windows is always in BETA.
Microsoft is not going to launch a RISC-V build of windows anytime soon, on what SOC they plan people to run it on? the VIsionFive2 SBC? you cant run Windows on that, it would be just as slow as Windows 11 on A55 cores, it takes 10 minutes to open task manager, i tried,
SG2380 with Milk-V Oasis should be first one to get in by Q4 2024.
SG2044 variant with P670 cores which I think is Q1 2025 should be second. Since the SG2042/SG2044 main market with T-head cores is Domestic Datacenters:
Sophgo has like three cores in running: T-Head(Domestic), SiFive(Global), and their own shared RXU cores(draft below, no Windows target unlike SiFive cores):
P670(RVA22/
RVA23/
RVA24) chips are the bare minimum chips to support every other architecture(RVA23/
RVA24) that comes after.
Ventana Client product is Veyron+Imgtec. Launch point will be after SG2380.
Tenstorrent has agreements to do client products with LG/Samsung: Laptops to "Gaming"/High-end TVs. Which translated to WoRV markets: Laptops to All-in-ones.
Rivos states only high performance RISC-V targeting integrated system solutions for Enterprise. While Akeana is leaning towards more a SiFive model with pre-existing SPARC-leaning architects; IP blocks for CPU cores, interconnects and accelerators. Elaborated further with high end laptop/server cores, and coherent and non-coherent interconnects and accelerators.
SOPHGO/Milk-V hardware availability and Microsoft starting image making process w/ 0x5064 and processors. Means that the above companies can immediately have the largest non-phone Operating System market share. No work on their part to grab exclusivity by 2016 then kill it by never launching a product sustained.
SiFive -> Top 4 Immediate -> Meabwhile, no need for ALA :: AMD swoops in 1:1 device operation between Windows on AMD64 and Windows on RV64. AMD's ARM license from Seattle/Cambridge days expired. So, they will need to operate against SoftBank/Nvidia hierarchy that do not want AMD.
While the low-hanging fruit is this:
"SMTS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PARTNER ENGAGEMENT ENGINEER" <== AMD's "Opensource Solutions Group" is leaning heavily into RISC-V.
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