At this point I've stopped considering TT as a serious company.
Their original slides had Ascalon silicon in 2024 at 3ish GHz, now the devboard is supposed to be next year at 1.38GHz on an older node and it still has not taped out yet as of last month.
Have to agree.
One of the lessons for whatever follows RISC V is having rivals (commercial and academic) compete during spec writing before any competitive hardware is produced will doom you all to failure as everyone tries to lock everyone else into their games ahead of actually winning as a team.