> This is a paper CPU, right? You can't actually buy an IC. Yes you can. You just won't know about it. The open source CPU cores tend to go into things like CM

> This is a paper CPU, right? You can't actually buy an IC. Yes you can. You just won't know about it. The open source CPU cores tend to go into things like CMOS cameras, ISPs, video processing chips, or FPGA projects. But RISC-V is exciting because it's the first open-source ISA that really has a good chance of becoming an open 32-bit microcontroller or even a phone/tablet CPU. There has been silicon chips taped out as university projects. No you can't buy them, but it means there's a pretty low barrier for a commercial company to produce one. But I think the compilers just needs to mature more, especially the LLVM one (which would be useful for making IDEs etc.)