Multiple companies have Apple M1 level RISC-V cores designed and announced and ready for chip makers to license, including Akeana which came out of stealth mode

Multiple companies have Apple M1 level RISC-V cores designed and announced and ready for chip makers to license, including Akeana which came out of stealth mode a couple of days ago. It only remains for someone to design these cores into an SoC, manufacture it, and get it onto boards and into the market, a process that typically in the past has taken around 3-4 years but may be accelerating. Keep an eye out around 2026-2027. Meanwhile, we'll have early Core i3/i5/i7 level performance in RISC-V SBCs by this time next year (the manufacturer is saying Q1, but I don't quite believe that), but with a lot more cores. That's leapfrogging over Pi 5, Rock 5, Orange Pi 5, which is already a pretty usable machine.