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Tangentially related to article, what happened to the riscv beagle board, is that still going to be available for purchase?

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The chip it was going to use (the JH7100) never went into production and they had to cancel the project.

There's a Kickstarter for the newer JH7110 chip.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2

Additionally Pine64 is putting out a board with the same JH7110 chip too.

> The chip it was going to use (the JH7100) never went into production and they had to cancel the project.

The Beagle "Starlight" project that was supposed to have shipped in September 2021 was cancelled, but the JH7100 chip shipped on a very similar board as the "VisionFive v1" in December 2021 and is still available today. Though you'd be crazy to buy it for $180 when the much better VisionFive 2 (with, as you say, the JH7110) is now available for $45-$75 depending on RAM.

It's probably correct to say the JH7100 never went to MASS production, and the VisionFive V1 is probably using MPW chips.

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