What version fragmentation?
Pretty much everything coming out in 2026 -- including Ventana's Veyron V2 -- is RVA23.
One profile to rule them all.
Currently-shipping applications processors are either RVA20 (plus the B extension in practice) or RVA22 with V as a standard option.
That's not fragmentation, it's just a standard linear progression. Each thing can run all the software from the previous thing:
RVA20 (what e.g. Ubuntu 25.04 and earlier require)
-> RVA20 + B
-> RVA22
-> RVA22 + V
-> RVA23 (what Ubuntu 25.10 and later require)
The exact same mistakes were made in ARM6. RISC-Y biggest competitor is mature architecture ecosystems and variants of itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Even most ARM software compilers still cripple the advanced vendor specific asic features simply for stability mitigation. ARM 8/9 was actually a much leaner design. Cheers =3
https://xkcd.com/927/