[tnorgaard]

Krste Asanovic in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxuQW8HWBXI shows numbers that the Berkeley Rocket implementation of RISC-V is both faster and has smaller die size than the ARM Cortex-A5 and that the Berkeley BOOM is faster and smaller than the ARM Cortex-A9.

[Thrillington]

The Cortex-A series are big processors. They're generally used when compute power is more important than power consumption. While it's a promising benchmark, the RISC-V will need to compete with the M-series (and other 8/16 bit cores) to break into the IoT market.

[PeCaN]

As impressive as that is, I doubt there's much room for RISC-V in Cortex-A's target market (phones, smart TVs, etc etc). I explicitly mentioned Cortex-M.