The CPU monopoly can change, until now there are only Russian and Chinese alternatives to nVidia and AMD, but also the EU is on the march with Rhea. We'll see.

But yes, currently there are no real alternatives yet, ....well https://techtelegraph.co.uk/open-source-alternative-to-x86-and-arm-could-take-off-in-2025/

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't want to buy Russian or Chinese any more than I want to buy American. Rhea is interesting, but seems only targeted at HPC and uses ARM cores. Now RISC-V on the other hand... Damn I do hope it takes off. I suppose it's dependent on software support as much as actual CPU support, so once I can actually buy a RISC-V machine, I'll see if there's anything I can do to widen RISC-V support in the FOSS world. I'm sure there are plenty of projects that will build without a whole load of modifications needed, but need someone to configure the build targets and test.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yes but already a long way ahead, but at least the way is there.