Yup...the RISC-V folks have a working, open source, ~1GHz processor.  That runs real software.  Today.<p>But what do they know?<p>Mill has...videos.  And patent applications.  A strong social media presence.  And a simulator that they really, really promise you&#x27;ll be able to use <i>real soon now</i> and is going to <i>totally</i> own everything.  And they&#x27;re going to fab the chips themselves, long after everyone but Intel figured out that was stupid.  Or something.<p>Because that sort of &quot;we have the off-the-wall architecture that will change <i>fucking everything</i> in computing forever&quot; attitude worked so well for the iAPX432, Transputer, Rekursiv, i860, everything Chuck Moore has ever done, TI9900, most (not all) things called VLIW, etc.&quot;  Right?<p>Best of all? A completely uncritical, fawning audience on HN.