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China's T-Head TH1520 is coming close, it's RISC-V and supposedly faster than the Raspberry Pi.

And they have a 64-core version in the works: https://twitter.com/SipeedIO/status/1620011141639581698

What's surprising is that this unencumbered hardware is coming from a country that's a dictatorship.

We may have different ideas of "close."

What makes the Raspi special is a vast repository of documentation, a community of people offering support, and extremely well supported peripherals with tight integration. This is a lot of work to do well and to maintain.

One of those things is mainline kernel support the TH1520, which it may well end up lacking, at least for a considerable length of time.

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