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BeagleV-Fire is a $150 single-board PC with a RISC-V processor featuring FPGA fabric

The BeagleV-Fire is a new single-board computer from BeagleBoard, the company behind the BeagleBone and BeaglePlay line of boards, among others. What makes this $150 board stand out is that it’s powered by a quad-core RISC-V processor that also features FPGA fabric, making it a reasonably affordable solution for folks looking to get their feet […]

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Lilbits: Default browsers, WSATools, BeagleV, and Kaby Lake-G

Windows 11 makes it a lot tougher to change your default web browser than Windows 10… but a change in the latest Windows 11 Preview build makes it a bit easier. Hopefully it’ll graduate to the stable version of Windows 11 soon. In other recent tech news from around the web, Google has released an […]

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A RISC-V single-board PC is coming soon from Radxa and StarFive

Less than a week after we found out that the BeagleV Starlight single-board computer with a StarFive JH7100 RISC-V processor was not going to be mass produced, StarFive has announced that you may still be able to purchase a board soon using the same processor. The Chinese chip maker is partnering with single-board PC maker […]

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BeagleV Starlight RISC-V single-board computer canceled, a new model may be coming in 2022

The BeagleV Starlight single-board computer was supported to be an affordable development platform for folks who wanted to get started with RISC-V architecture. Expected to sell for under $150, the BeagleV project was first announced in January and boards were expected to begin shipping in April. But the BeagleV Starlight never went into mass production, […]

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BeagleV is a RISC-V single board PC for $150 or less

Since the first Raspberry Pi launched almost a decade ago, there’s been an explosion of small, inexpensive single-board computers with ARM-based processors and support for Linux-based operating systems. The new BeagleV is a little different. It’s a small single-board PC with a RISC-V processor and support for several different GNU/Linux distributions as well as freeRTOS. Update: The BeagleV […]