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I mean, it's a soft core like Nios I through IV. I know Altera would sell you a license if you wanted to dump it into a hard flow for some reason. I assume Intel will too? The Altera division seems fairly independent post acquisition.

Also Intel's not intimidated by the gate count niche of classic five stage RISCs; they gave that market up decades ago.

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Never heard about Nios III or IV, I feel only Nios II was in use, Nios V here means RISC-V core actually?

Xilinx has Microblaze which is similar to Nios II, both can boot 32-bit linux.

Oh, you're totally right. It was almost ten years ago that I used a Nios II, so I read the state space wrong without bothering to look it up. Lol, classic mistake on the internet.

Yes, Intel will still sell you a license for NIOS if you want to harden it into your product.

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