Pine64 Oz64 is a single-board PC with ARM and RISC-V CPU cores
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The award for “WTF Design” goes to…

    So you get either a mediocre ARM or a mediocre RISC-V, plus an even worse RISC-V, plus an 8051 core.

    I’ve seen a lot of crazy, stupid SOC designs in the last decades, but this is extraordinary.

    And the board has USB2, 10/100 Ethernet, Wifi and/or(?) BT, and 512MB RAM. With no real support on the software side, and to small to run a modern Linux efficiently. If this board costs more than $10, it is doomed.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I can think of one valid use case for this unsolved by any other solution:

    Lets say a company has an SoC board base product currently currently base on ARM. They want to eventually migrate to RISC-V based solution.

    If a company has a product currently written to use ARM compiled code, but wants to transition to RISC-V (which isn’t ready yet), they could deploy this board which could run today’s ARM implementation, and it would be future-ready when the RISC-V implementation would be released without having to replace hardware.