"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 Lin

"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" Eben Upton's RISC-V knowledge is dated. Both this cpu core and the one in VisionFive2 are quite competitive with A72.