On: Raspberry Pi 5

[chubs]

It's ARM with quad A76 cores. I was curious up until this announcement to see if they'd ever release a RISCV raspberry pi.

[geerlingguy → chubs]

I asked Eben about that in an interview earlier this year, and the answer is "probably not too soon" — RISC-V has a lot of designs available, but most have been in the lower-end 'efficiency' class compared to cores like A76 (which the Pi 5 uses) and Neoverse, which are a lot faster.

But tech progresses on... never say never.

[brucehoult → geerlingguy]

A76-class RISC-V cores have been available to license since June 2021, and boards with them will be arriving in H1 next year.

[chubs → brucehoult]

That sounds really exciting! Do you happen to know if such boards will be competitive with the RPi5 eg quad-core etc. I love the idea of RISC-V resolving some of the drivers dilemma that SBCs seem to face. I recall some talk of extensions that might make it viable as a GPU core one day. Not to rain on the RPi5 parade of course, i'm sure it's a fantastic bit of kit :)