It's technically correct, because the "V" in RISC-V refers to it being the 5th project from UC Berkeley (after RISC-I, RISC-II, and tenuously naming SOAR as RIS

It's technically correct, because the "V" in RISC-V refers to it being the 5th project from UC Berkeley (after RISC-I, RISC-II, and tenuously naming SOAR as RISC-III, and either SPUR or VLSI-BAM as RISC-IV).