[em500]

I thought they pivoted to RISC-V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Strategic_background

[pantalaimon]

Nah it's much easier to move fast if you don't rely on a committee.

[Neywiny]

I think it depends on your skillset and goals. If you want to run other peoples' software and compilers and whatnot, it doesn't hurt to implement to an existing spec. If you're going to write your own or need a lot of mods, may as well roll your own architecture.