Sipeed’s Lichee Pi 4A is a compact computer that the company says offers better performance than a Raspberry Pi 4. But it has a few key features that set it apart from Raspberry Pi’s devices. First, the Lichee Pi 4A is powered by a RISC-V processor. Second, it supports up to 16GB of RAM. And […]
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This 2 inch board is a dual-port Ethernet router with a RISC-V processor
MangoPi has introduced several tiny single-board computers with RISC-V processors over the past year. Now the company is showing off an upcoming model that has a feature that helps set it apart: two Gigabit Ethernet ports. The company is positioning the upcoming board as a “tiny RISC-V router.” It measures just 5 x 5cm (about […]
Milk-V Pioneer is a 64-core RISC-V workstation for $1,199 and up (crowdfunding)
Chinese RISC-V computer startup Milk-V recently began selling a $9 board with a 1 GHz dual-core processor in China, and announced plans to launch a Raspberry Pi-sized PC with a 1.5 GHz quad-core RISC-V chip. But now the company has launched a crowdfunding campaign for one of the most powerful RISC-V computers available to the […]
Milk-V Mars is a Raspberry Pi-sized PC with a quad-core RISC-V processor
The Milk-V Mars is a credit card-sized single-board computer that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi. But instead of an ARM-based processor, this little PC sports a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor based on RISC-V architecture. It’s the latest in a line of RISC-V systems from Milk-V, and the company has been teasing the […]
Milk-V computers feature up to 64 RISC-V CPU cores
A Chinese startup called Milk-V has begun selling computers with RISC-V processors in China, with plans to expand to the global market soon. The company’s first product is the Milk-V Duo, a tiny single-board PC with a 1 GHz dual-core chip and a $9 starting price. A unnamed quad-core system with a StarFive JH7110 processor […]
Lilbits: HP 15C Collector’s Edition calculator, a Winamp-inspired physical music player, and more
A hardware and software hacker created a physical music player with a Winamp-inspired user interface. You can now jailbreak the latest version of feature phone operating system KaiOS on the Nokia 2780 Flip. And a useful app for Android-based media streamers has been booted from the Google Play Store… basically because it has a web […]
Lilbits: Ubuntu on the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board PC, mini PCs with Ryzen 7040HS, and Google’s new Find My Network
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer [Canonical] Canonical brings support for Ubuntu 23.04 to the StarFive VisionFive 2, a single-board PC with a 1.5 GHz quad-core JH7110 RISC-V processor with SiFive U74 CPU cores and Imagination BXE-4-32 MC1 graphics. […]
PineTab2 and PineTab-V tablets available for pre-order for $159 and up with a choice of ARM or RISC-V chips
The PineTab2 is a tablet with a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor, a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel touchscreen display, and a detachable keyboard. Unlike most tablets with those kind of specs though, it’s not designed to run Android. Instead it will ship with a custom build of Arch Linux, and users are […]
PineTab-V is a $159 tablet with a RISC-V processor (and virtually no software support)
The PineTab-V is a tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display that comes with a detachable keyboard cover and supports up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It’s also one of the first tablets to ship with a RISC-V processor. First unveiled in an April 1st post on the Pine64 blog, […]
Star64 RISC-V single-board PC launches April 4 for $70 and up
The Star64 is a single-board computer with a quad-core RISC-V processor, support for up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage (as well as a microSD card reader). Developed by the folks at Pine64, it’s designed to be an affordable platform for developers and hobbyists looking to get started with RISC-V architecture. […]