[throwaway4good]

So I assume that they didn't open source their leading RISC-V core because they were giving up on RISC-V, but instead because they have something better, more powerful in the pipeline.

Does that mean that we are going to see soon a data center class RISC-V chip with hundreds of RISC-V cores? That would really be something.

[sidkshatriya]

Could it be that they genuinely want people to use these designs and grow an ecosystem around it?

When there are more eyeballs looking at something it can become better.