Comment by nickik

> Many people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a free ISA saves them like 1% or less of system cost.

Actually nobody will have a rude awakening from that as everybody in RISC-V already knows this. That ISA don't matter much for price or performance was mentioned in pretty much every single presentation on RISC-V.

Only by open source fans who don't know much about hardware had such unrealistic expectations.

RISC-V allows for a future of open and costume hardware to be used. There will never be an open hardware RISC-V RPi style board unless you have an open ISA you can build around and use the software base.

Now we have real shot at something like that coming about.