Yeah, that's the whole point. Have your own CPU cores. As for slow, Rasberry Pi class of machines are not meant to compete with Intel/AMD server grade. That's for enthusiasts (with even if 40nm process) and has to be cheap.
All drivers are not needed, nobody is expecting to do triple 5k displays at 120FPS. Basic WLAN, Ethernet, Bluetooth and basic display capabilities around HD even at 30FPS are good enough for that market.
As for open source, you as a computer architect, can't even make your own SoC that is on x86 or ARM without paying royalties and spending lots of money upfront.
Not so with RISC-V so I guess you'll see lot more RISC-V in future.
This time - 20204 is the 1999 of RISC-V if you want to borrow a precedent from Linux's rise as defacto OS on server side.
All drivers are not needed, nobody is expecting to do triple 5k displays at 120FPS. Basic WLAN, Ethernet, Bluetooth and basic display capabilities around HD even at 30FPS are good enough for that market.
As for open source, you as a computer architect, can't even make your own SoC that is on x86 or ARM without paying royalties and spending lots of money upfront.
Not so with RISC-V so I guess you'll see lot more RISC-V in future.
This time - 20204 is the 1999 of RISC-V if you want to borrow a precedent from Linux's rise as defacto OS on server side.