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I think everyone is well aware of that, but unless you're making and able to sell millions of boards and have hundreds of millions in cash flow, there's no real path to using 10nm or smaller nodes. FWIW AllWinner are currently manufacturing 5 million RISC-V chips (with TSMC IIRC). I don't know what node they are using.


AllWinner's XuanTie 906 RISCV chip is supposedly 22nm.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/09/xuantie-c906-based-a...


With a claimed price of $12USD, too.


Raspberry Pi is sold in millions but still on 28nm




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