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Good enough” matters more than benchmarks. They can make supercomputers but it doesn’t matter to someone who wants a $100 computer.
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
Good enough” matters more than benchmarks. They can make supercomputers but it doesn’t matter to someone who wants a $100 computer.
- dmitrygr 5y agoAll riscv thingies i see today are decidedly not $100. I do see plenty of arm designs running linux under $10 though
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoThere are several cheap ones listed here: https://riscv.org/exchange/ https://riscv.org/exchange/ such as the $30 Sparkfun Red or the $20 Lofive boards. Those are for running an RTOS, not Linux, but they compete with Arduino, mbed, teensy, and other ARM Cortex M series microcontrollers. A price target of $10 is something you'll only hit with massive scale-up.
- dmitrygr 5y agoI was responding to "someone who wants a $100 computer" Those are not computers
- DeathArrow 5y agoRaspberry Pi is $50.
- StreamBright 5y agoSure, have you actually used one? There some challenges with the software support of RPIs especially model 4 and GPU drivers. I would like to see a platform (potentially RISCV) that has great software support and I could finally use one of these devices as a replacement for TV set top boxes running Android.
- klelatti 5y agoIf the issue is with GPU drivers then why would a RISC-V cpu make any difference? There is a lot of wishful thinking that using RISC-V magically makes all of the SOC more open. It doesn’t!
- StreamBright 5y agoBecause a CPU architecture does not exist in a vacuum and RISCV’s marketing is about being open, so I expect they are going to have the rest of the SOC as open as well. I guess it will be easy enough to have all the drivers part of Linux. I agree, this is wishful thinking.