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I am very excited to see the RISC-V devices come to the end users.

Then I am thinking how this device could fit into my daily life. I am wondering what are the typical scanrios for portable computers these days?

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A portable computer people tend to fit into their daily life is their smartphone.

Android RISC-V port was demonstrated over a year ago. I fully expect some RISC-V smartphones will hit the market as soon as chips with high performance cores are ready.

Realistically, that means RVA22 (TBA in spring) + 6 month (assuming best case scenario immediate tapeout) + whatever time it takes to validate such a device built around the new chip.

I would say 2023H1, if I had to guess.

I use a small laptop for pretty much all my daily life stuff. I do have a phone that I use for occasional mobile web access, navigation, etc. but my main computer is a laptop. I rarely browse or surf with the phone. I'd like to have a small linux tablet that I can use familiar dev tools on, but the inkplate 10 looks more attractive to me than this weird slab-like thing. The slab thing inherits too much from gaming devices, imho. Nothing wrong with gaming if that's what you're into, but the TRS-100 of yore was revered as a writing device and its keyboard was better suited for that purpos.

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