Re: Plenty of reasons to choose RISC-V
The 'consumer' may not care but developers do.
Having parts unencumbered by supply problems, international politics and ITAR regulations is worth a great deal. So what if the parts are not quite as fast as the latest -- for the majority of embedded applications you don't need the fastest, you need 'adequately fast'. You are also likely to make up any performance gap by improved software design (a lot of modern software design is relatively dirty, its designed primarily around reactivity, speed to market, rather than efficiency; it represents a huge opportunity for a potential competitor).