Designing any fast modern chip -- such as the Apple M1 -- probably still costs around a billion dollars.
In the RISC-V world the company with the most funding so far is SiFive and they've had $190 million.
Intel getting involved could change that very quickly.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not so easy that a few college kids could just whip one out. A company like Intel or AMD could definitely do it.
