The company announced an innovation fund this week that places bets on a couple of key technologies, chief among them RISC-V, a free, open source instruction set that shows promise in low-power and embedded systems, markets that are expected to grow significantly over the next several years.

Source: Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V - Ars Technica

It’s not inconceivable that RISC-V will be everywhere in the future, like Linux today.