A new laptop billed as the first ever to run atop RISC-V-based silicon is now available to pre-order online.
The product of a collaboration between DeepComputing and Xcalibyte, the new ROMA laptop will be powered by a mystery quad-core RISC-V processor and companion GPU, Arm security enclave, up to 16GB LPDDR4/X RAM and as much as to 256GB on-board storage., is designed predominantly for developers working on software built to run natively on RISC-V chips.Mark Himelstein, CTO at RISC-V International, the body tasked with promoting the instruction set architecture .
“The ROMA platform will benefit developers who want to test their software running natively on RISC-V. And it should be easy to transfer code developed on this platform to embedded systems.”ISA built around the same design principles as Arm’s proprietary cores, which command royalties each time they are integrated into a chip.
At the moment, RISC-V-based processors are far less common than either Arm- or x86-based chips, but the movement appears to be gaining in momentum. For example, China is now leaning heavily into RISC-V in the hope of minimizing its reliance on western semiconductor companies. And even Intel is dabbling in the space, having presumably come to the conclusion that x86 cannot compete for power efficiency in the long term.
The recent success of Arm-based processors like Apple’s M-series chips is proof that RISC designs could have a future in the
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