> I'm counting the HiFive Isn't it years behind ARM/x86 performance wise? > nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded They unlikely to be competitive

> I'm counting the HiFive Isn't it years behind ARM/x86 performance wise? > nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded They unlikely to be competitive anywhere else without significant investment. > but it can also scale up to "real" compute Did anyone doubt that you could theoretically scale up ARM to be competitive with x86 back in ~2000? It still took them several decades to achieve that..