I was mistaken. It's not the A7, It's the A72. This is the quote from Eben in Issue 83 (the winter 2022 issue) of Make:Magazine: "The main things holding RISC-

I was mistaken. It's not the A7, It's the A72. This is the quote from Eben in Issue 83 (the winter 2022 issue) of Make:Magazine: "The main things holding RISC-V back in the traditional Raspberry Pi/[Arm] Cortex-A market are a lack of available high-end licensable cores - I don't think I can go out and get anything that's competitive with the Cortex-A72 in Raspberry Pi 4, for example -- and a lack of software maturity in the Linux userland" I suspect that the 'competitive metric' is a combination of price, performance and manufacturing availability.