Echoing the other sub-thread, see this lowRISC summary from the introduction of the workshop:
State of the RISC-V Nation: many companies ‘kicking the tires’. If you were thinking of designing your own RISC ISA for project, then use RISC-V. If you need a complete working support core today then pay $M for an industry core.
If you need it in 6 months, then consider spending that $M on RISC-V development.
Given the estimates for time spent closing a deal with ARM, You could probably be actively engaged for those 6 months, and get your core in the same time frame.
Is MIPS still getting new design wins? I know that existing MIPS SoCs are still being used all over the place (eg. wireless routers) but is anyone actually working to put a MIPS core on a 20nm or smaller chip?
State of the RISC-V Nation: many companies ‘kicking the tires’. If you were thinking of designing your own RISC ISA for project, then use RISC-V. If you need a complete working support core today then pay $M for an industry core.
If you need it in 6 months, then consider spending that $M on RISC-V development.