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Right now the only metric I care about is: does it actually ship.

Hah, it does! Though the 2 production runs they've done sold out pretty quickly. I think some 3rd party stores on AliExpress snapped some up and are reselling them, though if you follow their official twitter (@mangopi_sbc) they post their official page when there's more stock. They recently posted a picture of new boards being manufactured so there's hope!

Yeah AliExpress seems to have these. Only $40+ for the 512MB model :-/

In this regard RISC-V has a whole lot of catching up to do if it wants to be something other than a footnote in the story of the ARM takeover of the world.

I know the openness of the RISC-V platform is ideal to hardcore FOSS fans, but they're far outnumbered by those who will be satisfied with the cheap, fast, and plentiful ARM chips currently on the market, and the cheaper and faster ones sure to come.

I would not describe the raspberry pi as plentiful right now, especially if you want the 4gb/8gb variants. Mine was recently destroyed and I can't get a replacement

Well… "now" is kind of a fluke point in time. I think everyone knew what I meant.

I mean, it's been two years of limited supply for the rpi and the RISC-V board under discussion is launching now. So if it has decent supply, that would leave it with the advantage over the rpi.

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