> True performance RISCV designs are going to be people's money maker and never open sourced. That turns out not to be the case. Alibaba's C910 core -- roughl

> True performance RISCV designs are going to be people's money maker and never open sourced. That turns out not to be the case. Alibaba's C910 core -- roughly comparable to the ARM A72 cores (at the same MHz) in the Pi 4 -- is open sourced. It is being used, at 2.5 GHz, in the upcoming "Roma" laptop. That is rather expensive (for now), but I suspect the same TH1520 SoC will quickly find its way onto cheaper SBCs. There is a very wide OoO GPL'd RISC-V core that is under development. It is aiming for eventual Apple M1 level performance. The current iteration is falling short of that at the moment, but it's already comparable to the ARM A76 in the latest RK3588 SBCs: https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/vroom https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/vroom