What kind of for free are you talking? The first commercial run RISC-V microcontroller SoC has fully-published RTL, and a company which will support you in adding it to your products (SiFive). Obviously people aren't going to give you the manufactured chips for free, but how close do you want it?
> > RISC-V is thrown around like if it's an already working CPU but it is not
(Evidence of existing CPUs provided)
> I am aware that they exist but it's not like companies are going to actively invest in devices for the end consumer purely based on RISC-V.