What I see there is that SiFive is, at the very least, five years behind the mid range of ARM CPUs, not only in performance, but also regarding the toolchain.

What I see there is that SiFive is, at the very least, five years behind the mid range of ARM CPUs, not only in performance, but also regarding the toolchain. At a similar cost, what’s the real advantage of migrating the current catalog of wearables or IoT products, to RISC-V? There’s a proven and tested platform, widely used in the industry, and the alternative is still trying to catch up.