That is definitely a phat core but I wouldn't expect it to be exactly trading blows with Zen3 or alder lake given (that depends on one's definition of "around the same" I suppose) since the backend seems quite narrow. That might be all they need for AI however, going to watch the video tomorrow. It has big caches by the looks of things but the throughput is more like Zen2 depending on what they can clock it at.

Either way I don't think anyone is seriously arguing you can't make a high-performance RISC-V process, but the thing is that scaling from (say) fast at memory and basic integer operations all the way up to all the sometimes wacky shit people want from their desktop machines will probably not be easy. It took Apple decades to do it with an ISA they helped design themselves.