“Good enough” here was meant to mean good enough to sell more, and therefore to drop prices.
That is already happening. It just needs to happen more. And I think it will. If you don’t find the RISC-V boards of 24 months from now “good enough”, that is ok with me. I just want them to get cheaper.
The other thing that is happening on that front is that microcontrollers are getting more powerful and staying inexpensive. You can get RISC-V microcontrollers today with similar performance to the original Raspberry Pi and with things like WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB. They are crazy cheap and there are many projects for which they are now “good enough”. And, of course, they keep getting better.
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I should have replied differently.
“Good enough” here was meant to mean good enough to sell more, and therefore to drop prices.
That is already happening. It just needs to happen more. And I think it will. If you don’t find the RISC-V boards of 24 months from now “good enough”, that is ok with me. I just want them to get cheaper.
The other thing that is happening on that front is that microcontrollers are getting more powerful and staying inexpensive. You can get RISC-V microcontrollers today with similar performance to the original Raspberry Pi and with things like WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB. They are crazy cheap and there are many projects for which they are now “good enough”. And, of course, they keep getting better.