OpenHW Group Announces Core-V Chassis SoC Project

It's a non profit consortium. If you look at the list of members, you can guess that some are more interested in 32bit MCU type applications, some in 64bit CPU. So this keeps both camps happy.

Edit: Read it again, and it mentions NXP i.MX. The i.MX7 SOC has the same setup...64bit + 32bit core on the chip. The idea is run Linux on the 64bit chip, and a RTOS on the 32bit. So the 32bit cpu could do real time stuff, like signal processing, while the main chip has a more dev friendly OS for integration, administration, etc.