[brucehoult]

A good example is the recent announcement by Framework that a (fairly slow for now ... something like late Pentium III, but quad core) RISC-V CPU card will soon be available for their laptops. And, oh by the way, our fingerprint reader has been RISC-V since 2020...

> Eventually RISC-V may have CPU cores fast enough to compete with high end ARM and x86 cores but it will take a while

Multiple companies with as good credentials as Nuvia have been working on similar level RISC-V cores since about 2022. Nuvia was founded in 2019, the Snapdragon X Elite chip using their core is out now. Expect RISC-V to take the same amount of time ... i.e. probably hit the market in 2027.

Is that "a while"? It's basically tomorrow in chip and software development terms.