Yes, I've had my VF2 for two years exactly, this week. Until the P550 Megrez arrives, hopefully in the next week, the VF2 is still the fastest RISC-V board I h

Yes, I've had my VF2 for two years exactly, this week. Until the P550 Megrez arrives, hopefully in the next week, the VF2 is still the fastest RISC-V board I have for software development. It builds everything I've tried faster than either the higher MHz and wider and OoO TH1520 (C610) board or the higher MHz and twice as many cores SpacemiT K1 board. (Pioneer would be faster but it also costs 30x more for about 15x more speed) It makes total sense to use a mature and well-supported SoC for the first integration into the Frame ecosystem. No doubt a lot of things were learned in the year or so they've been working on it. If they'd waited for EIC7700 (for example) then that would delay the whole thing for up to a year. As it stands, they can probably bang out a follow-up EIC7700 or K1/M1 board pretty quickly now if they want to.