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For me, the price is 15.99 euros. For 18 bucks USD I can get the same 100mb, 16mb and 4c/8t of core i5 hosted by OVH cloud (where I have so many upgrade paths

For me, the price is 15.99 euros. For 18 bucks USD I can get the same 100mb, 16mb and 4c/8t of core i5 hosted by OVH cloud (where I have so many upgrade paths it's laughable. I can, if I wish emulate my builds on x86 right here, at home, on my prox mox box or anywhere else I wish and not pay per hour of dev time. As a small dev, the cost savings isnt there yet. I don't have good RISC-V options at home/office to do testing on. That having been said, I want the few dev boards that are out there to come down from the 70dollar price point. I love what ESP32 ecosystem has coming out (P4? I think, it has zigbee). So if you have the spare 16 bucks a month, and the TIME to play this might be a good time to stick your toe in!

brucehoult 3y ago
> For 18 bucks USD I can get the same 100mb, 16mb and 4c/8t of core i5 It's not about the highest performance or cheapest hosting if you don't care what you're using. It's for those who specifically want RISC-V hosting. > ESP32-P4 Dual 400 MHz CPUs, less than 1 MB RAM. If you are happy with things in that class, you don't need to pay any $70. For $5 you can get Milk-V Duo dual 1000 MHz + 700 MHz with 64 MB RAM and run Linux on it. You can compile C/asm code for the 700 MHz "microcontroller" core right there on the 1 GHz Linux core, if you want. Just put the bare metal binary in the right directory and reboot the 700 MHz core. Use the Arduino library to write your code, if you want, if twiddle the registers yourself. https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-duo https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-duo https://github.com/milkv-duo/duo-arduino/releases https://github.com/milkv-duo/duo-arduino/releases
- zer00eyz 3y ago
  Thanks for the link to the milk-V that looks amazing. I would still love a mini pc/ raspberry pi style form factor for testing things that are more "application" and less embedded. The "real network" and 4-8 cores where I can vet out high thread low volume tasks would be ideal. I can run this at home and "play" avoiding the rent seeking techno feudalism for an experiment!

brucehoult 3y ago

> For 18 bucks USD I can get the same 100mb, 16mb and 4c/8t of core i5 It's not about the highest performance or cheapest hosting if you don't care what you're using. It's for those who specifically want RISC-V hosting. > ESP32-P4 Dual 400 MHz CPUs, less than 1 MB RAM. If you are happy with things in that class, you don't need to pay any $70. For $5 you can get Milk-V Duo dual 1000 MHz + 700 MHz with 64 MB RAM and run Linux on it. You can compile C/asm code for the 700 MHz "microcontroller" core right there on the 1 GHz Linux core, if you want. Just put the bare metal binary in the right directory and reboot the 700 MHz core. Use the Arduino library to write your code, if you want, if twiddle the registers yourself. https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-duo https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-duo https://github.com/milkv-duo/duo-arduino/releases https://github.com/milkv-duo/duo-arduino/releases

zer00eyz 3y ago
Thanks for the link to the milk-V that looks amazing. I would still love a mini pc/ raspberry pi style form factor for testing things that are more "application" and less embedded. The "real network" and 4-8 cores where I can vet out high thread low volume tasks would be ideal. I can run this at home and "play" avoiding the rent seeking techno feudalism for an experiment!