So it's late to deliver hugely complex cores according to some optimistic timeline? That's a weird measure of success. The ISA is successful in the low end and is seeing huge investment on large cores, though most of the promising companies are now focusing on AI or getting bought by large players like Qualcomm. So yeah it might take a while still before we see competitive high end consumer cores. I would still put my money on RISC-V rather than Loongson for the long term but we'll see.

It makes sense for the Chinese to make Loongson be performant, its an ISA they fully control and only have to do with domestic Loongson standard body politics instead of having to deal with global Politics in the RISC-V standard bodies.

Isn't it a bit hasty to say this, when one of the more powerful RISC-V CPU cores (Ascalon) hasn't been taped out yet?