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Sipeed teases a tiny FPGA-based handheld game console

Over the past few years, Chinese hardware company Sipeed has launched a number of intriguing computers and development boards with RISC-V processors, among other things. Now the company says it’s working on something a little different. Sipeed plans to launch a small handheld game system with a 2 inch LCD display, built-in game controllers, and […]

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SOPHGO SG2000 and SG2002 chips combine RISC-V, ARM, MCU, and NPU cores for small, cheap AI boards

SOPHON’s SOPHGO SG2000 and SG2002 chips are cheap, low-power solutions that leverage a bunch of different processor cores to provide a platform for running AI tasks and other applications. The chip supports a mix of RISC-V and ARM application processors as well as a microcontroller for managing input from cameras and other devices and an […]

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Lilbits: Amazon to drop Android (for Fire TVs), Fossil to drop smartwatches, Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 released, Lichee Console 4A reviewed

Seven years after Ubuntu developer Canonical stopped supporting a mobile version of the GNU/Linux distribution designed for smartphones, the folks at UBPorts continue to keep Ubuntu Touch alive and ticking. This week the team rolled out Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 with support for over two dozen smartphones and tablets. In other recent tech news, it looks […]

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Sipeed Longan Pi3H is a Raspberry Pi Zero-sized board with full-sized Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports

The Sipeed Longan Pi3H is a tiny coimputer that measures just 65 x 31mm (2.6″ x 1.2″), making it about the same size and shape as a Raspberry Pi Zero. But while the latest Raspberry Pi Zero model has micro USB and mini HDMI ports, Sipeed’s Pi3H has full-sized USB and HDMI ports… and even a full-sized […]

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Lichee Pad Max 4A is a 14 inch RISC-V tablet with a detachable keyboard (and removable processor-on-a-module)

The Lichee Pad Max 4A is a 2-in-1 tablet with a 14 inch, 2240 x 1400 pixel display, a detachable keyboard, and support for Debian Linux software. It’s also one of the only devices in this category powered by a RISC-V processor, thanks to a Sipeed LM4A module with a T-Head TH1520 quad-core RISC-V processor. […]

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Lichee Pocket 4A is a RISC-V powered handheld game console

Sipeed is continuing to expand its system of devices powered by a removable LM4A system-on-a-module with a RISC-V processor. One of the latest additions to the Sipeed Lichee family is the Lichee Pocket 4A, a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch display and integrated game controllers. There’s no word on how much it will […]

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Lichee Console 4A mini-laptop with a RISC-V processor is shipping soon

The Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is tiny laptop computer with 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard, up to 16GB of RAM and up to a 2TB SSD. It’s also one of the only mini-laptops (or laptops at all) to be powered by a RISC-V processor, thanks to support for a Sipeed LM4A computer-on-a-module with a […]

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Lichee Console 4A is a $299 mini-laptop with a RISC-V processor and 7 inch display

The Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is a compact laptop computer with a 7 inch display and a RISC-V processor. It’s the latest in a line of RISC-V products from Sipeed that are powered by the company’s LM4A compute module, which is also used for the Lichee Pi 4A mini PC and an expanding ecosystem of other […]

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Sipeed Lichee Cluster 4A board now available (supports up to 7 RISC-V computer modules)

Earlier this summer Sipeed launched the Lichee Pi 4A computer board powered by a system-on-a-module with a quad-core RISC-V processor. At the time, Sipeed also announced plans to release a bunch of other products powered by the same module, including a mini-laptop, tablet, and cluster board. The laptop and tablet went up for pre-order recently. […]

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Lichee Pad 4A is a RISC-V tablet with a 10 inch display and Android or Debian support

The Sipeed Lichee Pad 4A is a tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel LCD display, 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and 128GB of eMMC storage. It’s also one of a very few tablets announced so far that’s powered by a RISC-V processor. Sipeed hasn’t announced pricing yet, but the company is taking reservations […]