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I never understood why anyone would put their time into developing this instead of drivers for riskv or something.
This is existing high performance hardware that you can buy. I'd love for there to be something equivalent built using RISCV, but there's not.
Hopefully we will start to see some this year or next. Maybe not Apple Silicon level but Ascalon shows a lot of promise. And something may come out of the Qualcomm Ventana acquisition.
Still waiting for the latest Spacemit to drop as well, which will at least be RVA23. Ascalon will be the first “high performance” RISC-V though.
Hopefully this stuff pans out. I'd love see it happen.