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No HDMI, no wifi, $665.

It's a nice product but the RISC-V Pi I was hoping for still isn't here.

It has PCIe slots for graphics, so of course no HDMI. This isn't a SoC-on-SBC type product like the RPi. The competitor here is a PC motherboard + CPU combination, not an RPi.

Yes, it will be far slower than a new PC, but this is still pretty damn cool.

To price compare you need to look at a 4+ core processor + modern motherboard + 8GB RAM + 32GB flash (EDIT: 32MB, so meh). I'm sure once you did that you'd find something half the price, but when you consider the volumes involved...

Minor correction: the linked website says 32MB flash, not 32GB. Unless you meant 32GB flash for the micro-SD slot which is presumably sold separately for the SiFive board as it is with the RPi.

Oops, yeah, thanks for catching.

It's inevitable that someone will make a RISC-V Pi one day

PicoRio is aiming at the Pi price point, but its specs may be lower.

I dunno... I mean it's actually smart to not make this a single board machine with built-in GPU, since there isn't really a workable open GPU / display controller solution. So making it a PCIe host that can take any off the shelf GPU neatly solves this problem.

I have high hopes that sifive might be able to make something happen here.

IF RISC-V ever gets big enough for economy of scales to kickin.

Gotta start somewhere and this is much more reasonable than the FPGA version @ $1K!

FPGA version was actually $3-4K. The previous $1K board was an ASIC produced in very small numbers.

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