A RISC-V Raspberry Pi rival is about to hit the market
The VisionFive V1 is everything the BeagleV was supposed to be
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Shanghai-based StarFive has announced a new single-board computer (SBC) based on theRISC-Varchitecture, which is being touted as the spiritual replacement for the cancelledBeagleV.
StarFive hails the upcoming VisionFive V1 as the world’s first generation of affordable RISC-V boards designed to runLinux, just as it did with BeagleV at the start of the year, before shelving the project in July.
“VisionFive pushesopen sourceto the next level and givesdevelopersmore freedom and power to innovate and design industry-leading solutions,” said StarFive.
Well-stocked
Although StarFive hasn’t yet announced a release date, according toLiliputing, the VisionFive V1 will retail for $149.
The SBC, which measures slightly larger than theRaspberry Pi 4, will be powered by the 1.5 GHz dual-core SiFive U74 RISC-V processor, together with 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM. There’s amicro SD cardslot for storage, HDMI 1.4, gigabit Ethernet, 3.5mm audio out, 4 x USB 3.0 Type-A ports, and a Type-C for power.
There’s also Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 4.2, and the board features a 40-pin GPIO header along with two MIPI connectors for connecting compatible cameras and other accessories.
Liliputingsays the board will ship with support for Fedora Linux, as well as otheroperating systemsincluding Yocto, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, and Zephyr. The distro reportedly plans to add support for other operating systems in the future. Also on the horizon is a quad-core variant, the VisionFive V2, though we’ll wait for V1 to hit the shelves before getting too excited.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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