Interesting - not quite going for the normal Arduino market. $60 is a pretty high price tag, but it has a quite high clock rate and should get better performance.
Tempted to buy one just for making some toy cryptographic applications as the open architecture makes an appealing feature for those applications.
Ultimately though I think it'd be best if they can get China sold on this architecture. $2 Arudino compatible boards or $7 espressif boards with wifi are hard to argue with for most people messing around in the microcontroller space.
> Ultimately though I think it'd be best if they can get China sold on this architecture.
This is happening. There are a few embedded RISC-V cores coming out of China now. It seems if you have the choice of paying to license an ARM Cortex-M core or downloading Rocket chip off github, then people are going the download route.
Edit: This is not to say that RISC-V is more popular than ARM in the embedded space. ARM obviously has a huge momentum and vast (billions) installed base.
Tempted to buy one just for making some toy cryptographic applications as the open architecture makes an appealing feature for those applications.
Ultimately though I think it'd be best if they can get China sold on this architecture. $2 Arudino compatible boards or $7 espressif boards with wifi are hard to argue with for most people messing around in the microcontroller space.