Baikal T1 MIPS Processor – The Last of the Mohicans?

They basically made T1 to blackmail arm into licensing them arm cores and peripheral ip.

I'd be excited to see Baikal have a RISC-V design, though perhaps they have agreements or other constraints which prevent that, or it still doesn't look like a good deal to them. I guess for now it's probably mainly that licensing a complete solution in the RISC-V space raises more questions than licensing from Imagination, and if ARM were cheaper and more efficient at negotiating contracts then possibly ARM as well.

Always up for more vendors stabbing at this stuff, especially if it means more companies have the incentives to consider investing in fabs. Having to choose between a U.S.-centric hardware trust model and a China-centric one seems a little bit lame.