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I was visiting a space technology fair quite recently, and I was quite surprised to see how many companies are betting on RISC-V in that space (pun intended).

On another note: does anyone have experience with a RISC-V board you can actually order right now?

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I have a LicheePi and a VisionFive 1. The LicheePi is really tiny and really cute, and it's no more than $30. However, it's essentially a Raspberry Pi Zero and so is super slow. The VF1 is like the LicheePi but hugely upgraded, as it's got a whopping TWO cores and a full 8GB of RAM. Both of these boards lack GPUs and so are painful to use as desktops because the CPU is doing all the rendering. Overall, they work shockingly well if you want a working RISC-V device.

Recently announced are the BL808, which is supposed to be under $10, and the VisionFive 2, which is 4 cores and up to 8 GB RAM.

Unfortunately neither features the vector extension.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64

https://liliputing.com/visionfive-2-risc-v-single-board-comp...

VisionFive 2 has a GPU IIRC

I already know because I was one of the first to back it on Kickstarter.

I got one coming in the mail. Almost as much fun as a Commander x16

I have been waiting for the PINE64 Star64 [1] to be released, planned to be next month.

[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64

Clockwork's uConsole R-01 [0] can be ordered now, and ships in a few months. It looks like a fun option at $139.

[0]https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-r-01

I have a Clockwork Pi DevTerm R-01 which uses the Allwinner D1.

It's fun to mess around with.

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