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There's a range of boards, including some laptops and tablets, based on TH1520 and JH7110 SoCs. These are RVA20 chips.

As of recently, there's also spacemiT K1, which is RVA22+V.

In the second half of this year. Milk-V Oasis is meant to show up, providing a serious jump in performance. This is 16x SiFive P670, similar to Cortex A77, faster than any ARM SBCs available.

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The decent performance is on its way, all that with enough modern hardware features to be a "big implementation" (à la x86_64).

Then RISC-V assembly will be the new C.

It is going to be a long road and a difficult one: the market is already saturated with mature micro-architectures with ISAs completely locked down with Intellectual Property and that by very few vendors. This is really hard, can still fail

> Then RISC-V assembly will be the new C.

Yeah, I don't think so

> Then RISC-V assembly will be the new C.

What is meant by this?

"I don't know what C is used for but I want to make a Big Statement."

RISC-V is pleasant to write and simple enough to write an reasonably performing interpreter for I guess.

Note I am not OP and I do not endorse this message.

Yep, and since C was mostly used as an ISA abstraction, then with a real, good enough, worldwide royalty free ISA and not vendor locked, we can expect much more assembly written libraries and programs.

A side effect is to kiss bye bye significantly to the planned obsolescence of much system software and some computer language syntaxes.

It's not reasonable to expect people who like programming in C or other high level languages to suddenly switch to RISC-V assembly.

But I do expect some programs written in assembly to show up, because it doesn't happen very often than a new, modern open ISA like RVA20/RV64GC shows up with a promise of very long term compatibility.

And because assembly is still fun, and will forever be.

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