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?
No, it's not hasty to say that a processor that I can buy and benchmark today outperforms a processor that hasn't even been taped out.
This stuff has all been six months away for years now.
At some point we have to accept it isn’t happening.
The devboard, was supposed to come out end of last year, now it's sometime next year with 1.38GHz on 12nm.