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Affordable Desktop Hardware. Right now all RISC-V hardware that's not just a naked SBC costs a small fortune. Once there are mass produced pre-built RISC-V boxes for the average person then RISC-V will become more widespread.
They do not differ too much from a rpbi5 in price, I know they're slower but but almost fully open. https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExWZQ5a
And I didn't know that the loongson boards (similar to riscv but closed source) have reached the power of a core i5: https://wccftech.com/china-loongson-3a6000-cpu-reaches-core-i5-14600k-performance-clock-to-clock-test-overclocked-to-3-ghz
That's still just a SBC in a case though. What needs to happen is basically a Dell Optiplex or Lenovo ThinkCentre but RISC-V. A machine that is relatively cheap, made from standard mass produced parts and is plug-n-play but still has some room for expansion.
Loongson is already going in that direction. Also they published at least the essentials, mainlined support for it in GCC and the Linux Kernel, and most of all it's not x86. In fact it's based on MIPS64.
I was checking that too, and was wondering why they don't try to build a fydeBook (with fydeOS). They claim it's the equivalent of an i5, which means it's going to probably be the equivalent of an i7/i9 with its next release. https://wccftech.com/china-loongson-3a6000-cpu-reaches-core-i5-14600k-performance-clock-to-clock-test-overclocked-to-3-ghz/