On Fri, 18 May 2018 02:30:13 -0400 Joseph Mayer <joseph.ma...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 4-core (5-core?) 1.5Ghz, 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM, two PCIe slots (one one-lane > and one two-lane PCIe 2.0?), SATA, gigabit ethernet, microSD, HDMI, > UART. > > https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/ > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board > > 21 more available in lower link, to the lower right. > > Great to see it happen finally. Indeed! RISC-V is making progress. For plain programmers this is probably not yet the right set of hardware as (1) system spec of RISC-V is not finalized yet (IIRC!) and (2) speed of the board CPU is probably lower than speed of Qemu emulation on high-speed xeon CPU. Also, w.r.t. price, it's a bit prohibitive indeed. IIRC promise was to have both boards on one board and for ~$1000 but I may be mistaken on this. Anyway, this is just first bird and I hope there will be more comming. Especially the promises of Esperanto Technologies look really promising. Future is open and interesting!
