SiFive announced that at Hot Chips 2017 (last week): their quad+1 core is coming out early next year. In addition to that, I expect to see some interesting ann

SiFive announced that at Hot Chips 2017 (last week): their quad+1 core is coming out early next year. In addition to that, I expect to see some interesting announcements at the RISC-V workshop in Nov. Patience, patience. It's likely that RISC-V adoption will happen bottom up, first deeply embedded space (like NVIDIA, who is using it internally in the GPU for managements). Next, bigger cores will also happen especially where there's no (perceived) advantage to using ARM. A standalone chip will probably come late and will likely come from China from someone looking for a way to stand out from the myriad of ARM vendors out there. Just the idle musings of an ARM-chair analyst.