In an interview conducted by Jeff Geerling, Eben Upton discussed the possibility of migrating from ARM to RISCV for the next generation of Raspberry PI.
Eben indicated that the main barrier was familiarity with ARM within the Raspberry PI foundation and the lack of maturity of tooling for RISCV.
He did hint that if they were to move to RISCV it would be at the low end/microcontroller level first.
Time link to the RISCV part of the interview here.
Pine64 the company behind the facinating (and currently flawed) PinePhone has taken a spin at creating a RISC-V based SBC (single board computer).
Comments over at Hacker News seem to be pretty positive around the performance and specs (PCIe included!).
You can pre-order one in the Pine64 store here.
ASUS has launched the first RISC-V small single board computer from a major vendor details here.
At first blush it looks like a great option to play around with the RISC-V ecosystem, but there have been some discussions here on HN pointing out that they don’t implement the full spec - which may be a problem for people running Linux.
Unfortunatley it does seem to be a “paper launch” with no pricing or information on vendors stocking the device.
