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Sadly built on legacy ISA, still ARM instead of the open standard RISC-V. They wasted the opportunity to go RISC-V with Pi 5. I am surprised they still haven't
by snvzz 3y ago
Sadly built on legacy ISA, still ARM instead of the open standard RISC-V. They wasted the opportunity to go RISC-V with Pi 5.
I am surprised they still haven't figured out how to accept USB power with higher voltage than 5V. It'll thus continue to be a pain to power.
Apparently it isn't all that efficient anymore as evident from their active cooler add-on.
It looks like the performance will be similar to the incoming (was meant for release this summer but seems to be late) new SiFive RISC-V development board with P550 CPU.
- surajrmal 3y agoThere are a lot of good reasons to not jump the gun on riscv. You're not going to get the same performance for the same price point on riscv at the moment. A lot of the existing software ecosystem still hasn't been ported over to riscv either.
- snvzz 3y agoThere's no such thing as jumping the gun on RISC-V. If you're in the industry and not using RISC-V, you're already late relative to your peers. And you will be left behind should you drag. We will sadly have to watch it happen to Raspberry Pi 5.
- surajrmal 3y agorisc-v isn't going to displace arm overnight. x86 still exists in the same markets it's always done well in despite over a decade of ARM trying to enter its markets. Raspberry Pi is doing the sane thing of delivering a good working product to its customers. It would have an interior product if it tried to do the same with risc-v.The fact there is no existing risc-v that comes close to competing with raspberry pi is evidence of this.