It is possible there is some licensing issue around the SIMD, after all it is an optional component. It was available for the LX6 as well, but not included. It'

It is possible there is some licensing issue around the SIMD, after all it is an optional component. It was available for the LX6 as well, but not included. It's been a good run but it's great the are going to the RISCV, at the very least for the vibe. I have used both architectures, more recently using their esp-idf and it is surprisingly uneventful to switch between them. The only issue I had is the different high/low speed timer devices between chips. In fact it is a surprise the on chip peripheral hardware is incredibly compatible with their idf. Sure, they have a layer for some calls but a lot is just issuing commands to io devices directly, and the same between riskv and tensilkica cores.