[GianFabien]

Perhaps I'm mistaken. But I thought that several of the original MIPS designers, etc became the leaders of the RISC-V movement.

The ISA and its implementation are two different dimensions. Look at the x86 ISA how it evolved from 80386 to present day superscalar, predictive, re-ordered, who knows what else microprogrammed implementations. The code I compiled back in 1990 runs today without even recompiling it. My sleek light-weight laptop is totally unlike the beige box I originally compiled it on.

[jecel]

By original MIPS designers do you mean from Stanford? Those would include John L. Hennessy, Norman P. Jouppi, Steven Przybylski and Christopher Rowen as the authors of the first papers about the project. If you are talking about the MIPS company started by John Hennessy and Chris Rowen, Wikipedia has this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_Technologies#Notable_Cont...

In either case, I am not aware of any of them being RISC-V leaders though John Hennessy did rewrite the books he co-authored from DLX to RISC-V.