It's ridiculous to compare RISC-V against x86 as serious competitors in the same market. Shipping RISC-V chips are currently about 25 years behind x86 in microa

It's ridiculous to compare RISC-V against x86 as serious competitors in the same market. Shipping RISC-V chips are currently about 25 years behind x86 in microarchitecture (similar to Pentium) and 20 years behind in performance due to using more modern process nodes and higher MHz. Similarly, shipping RISC-V chips are currently six years behind ARM's A53. The P550 closes the gap to ARM to 4 years, and to Intel probably about 12-15 years with P550 and A15 both most similar to Core 2 in the Intel line-up. That's a highly-usable level of performance, especially when paired with more modern RAM, SSD, and GPUs than were available in Core 2 systems.