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An almost $700 experimental RISC-V Mini ITX motherboard... I wonder who would buy it and why they would.

A company called SiFive is making a Mini-ITX motherboard with a RISC-V CPU, and it's almost $700. The RAM and CPU are soldered onto the board, but interestingly it has 2 NVMe slots, a MicroSD card slot, and even a PCIe x16 slot.

 

Seeing that RISC-V is in its infancy, and the general premium you have to pay for Mini ITX parts, I'd say it's only for those who are serious about RISC-V development. Currently I think the only thing you can run natively on it is Debian Linux, as that's been ported to RISC-V.

 

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"RISC architecture's gonna change everything." --Hackers

 

Yeah...dev board, like many others but this one's for an even more niche crowd.  Where there's a need the market will fill it with a product if possible...then the product will fail or not.

 

Tinkering can be an expensive hobby, but you can bet SOMEONE will buy it.

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