An important part of this announcement is that Andes Technology is a Taiwanese company. I'm aware that there are American companies producing RISC-V microcontrollers, but in terms of microprocessors, RISC-V was shaping up to be something that was only physically manufactured in China, and therefore a risky proposition in terms of geopolitics.

It bothers me more than it should that the company behind it's called Andes technology, names project after cities, their chips after native animals, yet wasn't founded in South America nor has a base or team over there.