>RISC-V is still not quite Raspberry Pi 4-level on the fastest chips, but is advancing quickly. RISC-V is not quite Pi 4 level on the fastest SBC you can buy t

>RISC-V is still not quite Raspberry Pi 4-level on the fastest chips, but is advancing quickly. RISC-V is not quite Pi 4 level on the fastest SBC you can buy today, the VisionFive 2, where some kickstarter backers have already received their boards. It's around 80% as fast as Pi 4. Sipeed have announced their LM4A with TH1520 SoC will be on sale late Q1. They've published benchmarks running at 1.85 GHz showing it is faster than Pi 4 at that speed, but it is supposed to run at 2.5 GHz with a heatsink. SiFive have announced that their HiFive Pro board will be shipping in the summer, using Intel's "Horse Creek" SoC (which in turn uses SiFive P550 cores). The SoC was demonstrated running by Intel back in September. SiFive says the board will run at 2.2 GHz. It's should be similar performance as an RK3588 at similar clock speed i.e. quite a lot faster than a Pi 4. Multiple other companies are working on RISC-V SoCs with performance in Apple M1 class, which is much faster than anything ARM themselves has. They're further away -- 2024 or 2025 -- but there is basically no doubt that they will come. Android software probably isn't going to be ready for prime time until 2024 or 2025 anyway.