[baobrien]

>Want a low-power core for an IOT device? You could license ARM or you could build on a free POWER softcore.

To be fair, there's a bunch of small, decent quality, open source RISC-V cores that have gone to tape-out (RI5CY, Ibex, PicoRV32, SweRV)

[cipherboy]

Yeah, perhaps fully-auditable core would've been a better example. One that runs a full Linux stack for a mainstream distro.

I'm personally most interesting in profiling and tuning to my workload to run on FPGAs. But that's many years out. :)