[microcolonel]

I have RISC-V hardware (got a handful of HiFive1 boards) and they're definitely the fastest arduino compatibles to date. If SiFive made an SoC for Chromebooks (maybe in collaboration with a large manufacturer like Samsung), I would buy them and suggest them to friends. I would love to have a big and wide RISC-V desktop workstation (couple hundred gigs of ram and a couple dozen cores) once all the prerequisites are in place, but that stuff takes more time it seems. The Shakti folks over at IIT Madras seem like they'll be the first ones to tape out RISC-V workstations, servers, and HPC nodes.

Privilege separation models are finnicky, so it's probably not a good idea to rush that.

I think that if we can all throw our weight behind RISC-V, the availability, diversity, and good functioning of computer platforms will improve drastically.