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I don't follow RISC-V development closely, so please define "moving forward". What are the steps you want to see taken?

Production of chips that support the privileged specification, which is needed for operating systems like Linux to run. So far there is only one microcontroller chip being produced.

Not exactly true. There exist different tapeouts in academia (e.g. http://asic.ethz.ch/2016/Patronus.html or http://asic.ethz.ch/2015/Imperio.html) as well as in industry (which are not public).

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