>Those CPUs are nice and all, but you're even better off using a Pentium CPU performance wise, and that's a 20 years old CPU.
This is out of date information. Currently purchasable RISC-V CPUs (in e.g. Milk-V Jupiter) are already the level of Intel Core 2, with the important difference that Jupiter has 8x of them, whereas the top Core 2 chips were only quad-core.
Cores expected to ship in early 2025 on 16-core Milk-V Oasis are at the level of Intel Haswell or AMD Zen 1.
Akeana, Tenstorrent, SiFive and Ventana have IP available for licensing which performance is similar or above Apple M1.
There isn't much of a performance gap left to close.
This is out of date information. Currently purchasable RISC-V CPUs (in e.g. Milk-V Jupiter) are already the level of Intel Core 2, with the important difference that Jupiter has 8x of them, whereas the top Core 2 chips were only quad-core.
Cores expected to ship in early 2025 on 16-core Milk-V Oasis are at the level of Intel Haswell or AMD Zen 1.
Akeana, Tenstorrent, SiFive and Ventana have IP available for licensing which performance is similar or above Apple M1.
There isn't much of a performance gap left to close.