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So, it's not actually a RISC-V processor; it's a more-or-less a RISC-V VM running on either an FPGA or on something called an "adaptive SoC". I'm sure there's some reason for that, but that's not a RISC-V processor. If I put an x86 softcore in an FPGA and soldered it onto an AM2 socket, I would be committing fraud if I called that an "x86 processor".

It would seem the purpose for this processor is to enable MicroBlaze users to experiment with RISC-V; so this product does make sense in that context. But let's not jump the gun and get excited about mainstream support for RISC-V. AMD is just dipping their toes in the water to see if real RISC-V processors would be worth the risk.

(Yes, I know, most x86 processors are actually RISC processors that run x86 softcores, but they are heavily optimized at the hardware-level to run just x86 softcores, which cannot be said of FPGAs.)