Nothing really new about this, the most relevant for most people is that Esperanto will hopefully put a lot of love into the open source BOOM repository.<p><a href="https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom</a><p>That will help Open-Source projects such as LowRisc.<p><a href="http://www.lowrisc.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lowrisc.org/</a>
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.<p>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?