There is much greater performance potential out of RISC-V now with SiFive having announced the U8-Series. From results on OpenBenchmarking.org of SiFive’s HiFive Unleashed development board the results hadn’t been too impressive with the aging U54 SoC but the RISC-V focused firm has been working on ramping up the performance and have now introduced the U8-Series. (Source: Phoronix)