I actually LIVE in a developing nation. Electricity is not the bottleneck. We know how to make electricity. We know how to store electricity. Africa, in particular has skipped the whole PC-era and gone straight to cellphones; it’s called “leapfrogging”.
Here you are 2 sobering videos for whom who expects Risc-V platform to replace in general purpose computation the x86/ARM ones in the near future or even right now.
However promising as a development target actually not fullfill a generic usage as their performance, even their raw Hw values equals an ARM SoC, their output performance is mediocre in more comparisons.
So I would avoid from high expectations for a general daily usage - if it is not a development business, but replacement would be … for any working system on any conventional x86/ARM ones.
Especially as the existing boards specifically were built for developers :))
Jeff Geerling –
RISC-V was supposed to change everything - How’s it going?
This should give you a better idea of performance than those synthetic benchmarks. I’d say the CPUs are already good enough for a lot of people. In terms of hardware, all we need now is standardized motherboards so that we can install an OS like on a normal PC.
I don’t know where to buy the RISC-V UR-DP1000.CPU. From the OpenKylin desktop picture, It looks like it works with an ATX-sized board. I would ask the OpenKylin ppl - they seem very active: “the community has created a repository with more than 20,000 software packages, and jointly with Jianshi Technology released the world’s first RISC-V laptop DC ROMA equipped with openKylin”.
It is possible that this CPU doesn’t sell towards the consumer market. Some computer systems in mainland China are targeting government and state-owned enterprise markets only
Milk-V has a board upcoming with that chip, that could be interesting to kick of more RISC-V development, also should be way more capable then anything else out there: https://milkv.io/titan
Got some new nice small case for RISC-V machine. Currently use HiFive Unmatched there with Nvidia GPU, but plan to use Milk-V Titan then it will be delivered.
