I don't know if you noticed, but ARM also only makes relatively small and slow cores. Apple made something called the "M1" which uses ARM's instruction set but

I don't know if you noticed, but ARM also only makes relatively small and slow cores. Apple made something called the "M1" which uses ARM's instruction set but isn't small and slow. If Apple turned the M1 team to making a RISC-V core, it would perform just as well.