> RISC-V cpus are still at the performance level of Raspberry Pi 4, a $50 computer from five years ago. What do you mean "still"? Those are brand new RISC-V C

> RISC-V cpus are still at the performance level of Raspberry Pi 4, a $50 computer from five years ago. What do you mean "still"? Those are brand new RISC-V CPUs, or were a year ago when they came out. The base RISC-V specification which the current cores implement (except the ones from the last couple of months) was not even formally frozen and published yet when the Pi 4 came out. Getting comparable RISC-V boards out in 4 years was a great effort. Note that the Pi 4 arrived eight years after the ARMv8-A spec was published. That original spec doesn't contain a lot of important things such as SIMD which make a huge difference to those Geekbench scores. They are not comparing like to like. By this time next year we'll have RISC-V boards performing better than the Pi 5, less than two years after it (possibly 1.5 years). A year after that, RISC-V things currently well into their design pipeline will be somewhere between Zen 1 and Apple M1 performance. The rate of progress is incredible. In the last 2-3 years many designers of current CPUs from Apple, Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm have moved to RISC-V companies.