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Thats also a good point. For the big Milk-V systems I mentioned they use external DRAM-- but cache might still be a die-space issue (I'd assume that it's always shared completely between ARM/RISC-V cores, and would need to be scaled up for true multicore operation).

But I'm still amazed that this is a thing, and you can apparently just throw a full core for a different architecture on a microcontroller at basically no cost :O