Has anyone on here looked at or have any direct wxperience using the sifive RISC V motherboards? Looking for a more powerful home machine and thinking about going this route instead of AMD or Intel.
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Posted a link to the RISC V conference videos so may be able to help
@AliMirjamali @zleap I'm gonna have to watch this tomorrow morning, but I definitely understand things can be more expensive in these stages. I hope they can either seriously boost performance or get those costs down. I don't know how they can ever break into a market owned so thoroughly otherwise.
It just seems like 700 is incredibly cost prohibitive for many developers especially when you still need to buy all the peripherals to build out a full computer. It would likely be over a grand by the time it's all said and done and if a pi4 can outperform it I don't know how I could justify it. I would just by a SBC if I can't get real desktop or laptop performance out of it.
It just seems like 700 is incredibly cost prohibitive for many developers especially when you still need to buy all the peripherals to build out a full computer. It would likely be over a grand by the time it's all said and done and if a pi4 can outperform it I don't know how I could justify it. I would just by a SBC if I can't get real desktop or laptop performance out of it.
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Watching @pdp7 presentations on the current status of RISC-V ecosystem and available boards/emulators/Soft-Core should provide useful information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_70Cwf4LQ
It should be noted that RISC-V is still at its early development stages and many boards/chips are produced at very small numbers with extremely expensive methods. Such boards are more directed at developers.