RISC-V Motherboard For Framework Laptop Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RISC-V Motherboard For Framework Laptop Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access

Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Framework-Early-Access

[Quackdoc]

before anyone comments, no the JH7110 is not a fast cpu, it's slow, like rpi3 levels of perf.

[zexelon]

For all your retro computing wants, but with a one year warranty and a little bit of battery life!

[varikonniemi]

How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.

[ahrs]

How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.

At this point why not just build an I/O module of some sort for a Raspberry Pi that fits into a Framework shell?

For many workloads the JH7110 is slower than the Raspberry Pi

Unless you specifically need RISC-V, what's the point?

[kpedersen]

How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.

Developer tinkering is a good market. They don't need to care about the average mouth-breathing consumer for *all* of their products.

Plus developers are the ones that are going to get the RISC-V ecosystem brought up. Its too early for the masses.

[sophisticles]

$1000 for a quad core system with 8gb ram that's slower than a Raspberry Pi?

Count me in!

[FLHerne]

Unless you specifically need RISC-V, what's the point?

That is the point I think, at least for this generation. The original announcement is quite clear about it.

This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and performance aren’t yet competitive [...]

https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/introd...-deepcomputing

[Luke_Wolf]

How long before the first offering comes that is in any way sane for normal use and not only developer tinkering? This is about 3 times too expensive considering what you get.

5 years

But more realistically once Qualcomm and friends start rejecting ARM in favour of using RISC-V which may happen sooner rather than later https://www.pcmag.com/news/arm-ramps...licensing-deal I wouldn't expect to see high performance and low cost RISC-V until that happens.

[Espionage724]

If I had $300 lying around, I'd give RISC-V a shot! 8GB is plenty for me.