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hope this coupled with more tech on risc-v hardware can bring it to the level of raspbery pi with all the community and hardware devices and the accessories and

• FullyFunctional 5y ago
  I hope it won't be a decade, but remember the (original) Raspberry Pi launched on a very mature part, with a _very_ mature (ancient) ISA. Outside the discount pricing, Intel has promised to tape out SiFive's P650. Revos, Tenstorrent, and others are also working on fast cores, but it'll be at least 2-3 years before they hit the market if at all. So far SiFive's dual issue in-order core (~ 40 GeekBench 5.4.1) (like on now-cancelled BeagleV) is the fastest chip you can buy as a lay person. The D1 (~ 32 GB 5.4.1) is cheaper but less powerful.
• mhh__ 5y ago
  It will only happen if a company decides to try and be the next raspberry pi chip (or as a by-product like the OG broadcom chip from the Pi1). The actual chip designs, I think, are already there in terms of getting a high-performance risc-v chip built, but currently the market and tech stack is still getting they so we are still at the scaled-down-test phase in the high end market. FWIW though I don't see much reason to care about the ISA of the CPU beyond it being RISC, chances are it'll still be full of all kinds of closed source crap like the Pi.
  • snvzz 5y ago
    >chances are it'll still be full of all kinds of closed source crap like the Pi. RISC-V's application profiles (like RVA22) do have requirements regarding some hardware that must be present (serial port with a specific interface), boot process and firmware interfaces. These are there to prevent an ARM-like messy situation.