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I think the lack of excitement is misplaced! RISC-V is already amazingly successful, and I would argue it is already the most widely available technology.

Tens of high quality OSS HDL implementations that target FPGAs and ASICs. Many tens of successful hardware implementations, already shipping multiple billions of cores.

The board Bruce mentions is an amazing value. A board in that form factor that you can bring up a graphical Linux and the distros are already targeting it.

You can get a 4-Stage 160Mhz RV32IMC with 400K of SRAM for $1 in the form of an ESP32-C3. Dev board for $15.