Veyron is a data center chip. I haven't seen TDP numbers but it's almost certainly unsuited for a laptop. Ascalon is IP and is AFAIK only available as such or as part of a data center machine learning chip.
I don't think the market forces are driving towards a RISC-V laptop chip (TH1520 is the only one that has mentioned notebook, but it's a very low-end Cortex-A72-class processor).
>Ascalon is IP and is AFAIK only available as such or as part of a data center machine learning chip.
AIUI it is an actual chiplet, which you're then supposed to combine with your own. They expect something physical people can buy next year, but I do not doubt there's a fair amount of extra work for it to be put into a laptop.
The IP is not only one design, either, but it is parametrized so that many presets can be built. They have several steps from small (2 wide) to large (8 wide).
Ultimately, what I meant to highlight is that the best RISC-V microarchitectures are about caught up with AMD/Apple/Intel, if not better. This is possible because of how much better RISC-V is. Else we could never have got to this point so quickly.
Actual products follow IPs. There'll be these next year from what we know, but there is also Rivos, MIPS and SiFive working on their very high performance microarchitectures we know much less about, and possibly more we don't even know about at all.
I don't think the market forces are driving towards a RISC-V laptop chip (TH1520 is the only one that has mentioned notebook, but it's a very low-end Cortex-A72-class processor).
Hopefully this will improve eventually.