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I keep reading articles like this about plans to productionize RISC-V processors. I’m rooting for RISC-V, but from what I’ve read it’s difficult to get a sense of progress here.

Is there anything on the market that offers price/perf close to Intel’s consumer chips? How powerful are RISC-V out-of-order cores compared to Intel’s recent microarchitectures? How about compared to Apple’s ARM cores?

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I think this is a problem with your expectations or reading of the evidence.

Esperanto are the only once who really want to offer extreamly high performance and they are not going primarly after Intel, but rather specialised applications.

There are multible companies offering IP and SiFive will realease a linux capable SoC soon, but thats it. LowRisc will hopeful produce hardware in 2018.

In terms of open source there is BOOM and in terms of IP Esperanto will sell you IP for the ET-Maxion that should be fairly high performance.

> How powerful are RISC-V out-of-order cores compared to Intel’s recent microarchitectures? How about compared to Apple’s ARM cores?

BOOM is not really the same class as Intel, or higher end Apple cores. BOOM targeted something around an ARM A9 in perf.

And for further context, the arm cortex A9 is what was in an apple A5...

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