The timing of this post coming mere hours after industry giant Microchip introduces a monster of a chip is relishable: > The integrated 240Gb/s [Ed: 30GB/s] TS

The timing of this post coming mere hours after industry giant Microchip introduces a monster of a chip is relishable: > The integrated 240Gb/s [Ed: 30GB/s] TSN-enabled Ethernet switch is far from the chips' only feature: the PIC64HX has no fewer than eight 64-bit SiFive Intelligence X280 RISC-V cores, https://www.hackster.io/news/microchip-unveils-the-high-performance-eight-core-risc-v-pic64hx-processor-family-91346e3e3039.amp https://www.hackster.io/news/microchip-unveils-the-high-perf... Actual speed of those X280's is TBD, but this seems like a huge bump in what's on the risc-v market. Most of the chips we've been looking at are the open sourced C906, a not particularly fancy early core, open sourced in 2021. It wasn't even the highest offering in that release! https://riscv.org/news/2021/10/alibaba-open-sources-four-risc-v-cores-xuantie-e902-e906-c906-and-c910-jean-luc-aufranc-cnx-software/ https://riscv.org/news/2021/10/alibaba-open-sources-four-ris... Google talked about using the X280 two years ago, and what they were able to get from it's vector unit, https://www.sifive.com/blog/sifive-intelligence-x280-as-ai-compute-host-google https://www.sifive.com/blog/sifive-intelligence-x280-as-ai-c...