Feature RISC-V has been talked up as a challenger to Arm and x86, offering an open royalty-free architecture that promises flexibility and innovation without licensing costs. But for all the noise, you're more likely to find it buried inside IoT gadgets and obscure embedded systems than powering anything that'll typically grab a headline. Arm runs the mobile and embedded world, and x86 still has desktop, laptop, and server markets locked down, but RISC-V? Well, it's still waiting to punch above ...