To be fair, there's a bunch of small, decent quality, open source RISC-V cores that have gone to tape-out (RI5CY, Ibex, PicoRV32, SweRV)
I'm personally most interesting in profiling and tuning to my workload to run on FPGAs. But that's many years out. :)
To be fair, there's a bunch of small, decent quality, open source RISC-V cores that have gone to tape-out (RI5CY, Ibex, PicoRV32, SweRV)