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I have no idea if this chip is any good, but

> RISC-V is inevitable, and the HiFive Premier P550 development system exemplifies that.

> RISC-V has no limits.

Have to appreciate the chutzpah if nothing else.

> RISC-V is inevitable

have yet to see a normal motherboard where the CPU is socketed (iGPU is a waste of sand on desktop); the ram is slotted and not a soldered upsell - mobile is the market for LPDDR.

Works for Apple, haha.

This looks like a SoM + carrier board. So at least in theory one could swap out the SoM (but yes, cpu + RAM soldered on there).

You don't see socketed CPUs and RAM in the Arm SBC world either. Or, increasingly, in the PC world e.g. Apple.

RISC-V is inevitable, RISC-V enables the best processors, RISC-V has no limits.

Are all phrases from the foundation's marketing committee playbook. They encourage using these.

I follows these recommendations. Some find it annoying, but the whole point is ingraining them in everybody's brains.

RISC-V is inevitable.

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