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Had not seen these, thank you.

> The StarFive JH7100 is equipped with a 4K ready VPU but lacks a 3D GPU. However, according to reports from CNXSoft and ArsTechnica, a version with an Imagination Technologies PowerVR GPU will ship in September. The initial GPU-less model will “use the Vision DSP hardware as a graphics processor, allowing a full graphical desktop environment under Fedora,” says ArsTechnica.

http://linuxgizmos.com/beaglev-sbc-runs-linux-on-ai-enabled-...

If you are looking for an information about the GPU.

The early access version of the board has very limited availability, but the mass production version will have full availability by September 2021.

beagleboard started the whole SBC(small board computer) trend and sadly it did not keep up with the momentum when TI decided to downplay in ARM designs. It was the RPI then.

Best wishes to this board, I will buy one as it looks impressive, just hope it has onboard flash or eMMC for the OS and root fs as SD card quality varies.

The page says SiFive U54 and Starfive JH7100. What's the relationship between SiFive and Starfive?

Answering my own question with an article: https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/sifive-creates-global-netw...

I suspect such Chinese etc companies are 100% Chinese "owned" for political/regulatory purposes, but have contracts requiring payment of a rather high percentage of their revenue to SiFive as royalties.

That should be U74 (dual-issue roughly Cortex A55) not the older single-issue U54. The U74 should be roughly 1.6x faster at the same clock speed.

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