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Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Re: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

moffkalast wrote: post #31
Havoc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t think people buy riscv for their performance competitiveness at this stage

People don't really buy RISCV at all at this point, there's noting less compatible you could get if you tried.

isn't there box64 that can run x64 applications?

And I think a language like golang can be a really really nice fit given how it can be compiled really fast towards risc-v as well

Maybe java also runs in risc-v I am not sure, surely people are working on java support I suppose.

People buy risc-v to support an open standard and to not worry about licensing fees.

Isro (india's nasa basically) uses some risc-v chips to not license arm chips etc. because of either better national security (to have less arm influence) or because they don't want licensing fees given how rudiculously price efficient isro is.

Re: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Post by mavamaarten »

yogorenapan wrote: post #39
goodpoint wrote: post #33

$40 is too expensive

Depends what you're using it for. A lot of people tend to buy pi-likes as servers which is absolutely bonkers. If you time eBay right, $50 would get you a fairly powerful intel NUC with much more performance and peripherals

I don't think it's bonkers. For running a true home server sure, there's more powerful things out there. But for hosting something like a ZigBee and Z-wave coördinator a Pi makes much more sense. Electricity is expensive, yo

Re: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Post by antonkochubey »

Ubuntu will not support RISC-V CPUs without RVA23 support going further, so this is stuck on 24.04 forever. There is no official Debian image either, and the Ubuntu version uses fixed kernel 6.6.47 with no further updates (it is not even installed from a repo).

I own one since a couple months ago but I already regret the purchase.

Re: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Post by numpad0 »

asadm wrote: post #14

2 TOPS is not a lot for AI projects.

Hopefully Adafruit or someone could get these[1] out of "Contact Us" jail. 16GB 30TOPS BF16 in M.2 2280 at $369. PCIe 2x8 low profile "Duo" configuration available at $799. Supposedly. I believe the theoretical performance is Strix territory if these could be clustered, but only if they mass manufacture these.

1: https://www.edgecortix.com/en/hardware

Re: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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Post by magicalhippo »

antonkochubey wrote: post #47

Ubuntu will not support RISC-V CPUs without RVA23 support going further, so this is stuck on 24.04 forever. There is no official Debian image either, and the Ubuntu version uses fixed kernel 6.6.47 with no further updates (it is not even installed from a repo). I own one since a couple months ago but I already regret the purchase.

> this is stuck on 24.04 forever

But as a basis for IoT projects that's perfectly fine. They're meant to be install and forget.

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