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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Seeed, StarFive, and BeagleBoard.org are collaborating to produce Risc-V boards [design-reuse.com].

SHENZHEN, China & ROCHESTER, Mich.--January 13, 2021 -- Seeed [design-reuse.com] and BeagleBoard.org® [design-reuse.com] have announced an official collaboration with the leading RISC-V solutions provider, StarFive, [design-reuse.com] to create the latest member of the BeagleBoard.org® series, BeagleV™ (pronounced Beagle five). BeagleV™ is the first affordable RISC-V board designed to run Linux. BeagleV™, pushes open-source to the next level and gives developers more freedom and power to innovate and design industry leading solutions with an affordable introductory price of $149 followed by lower cost variants in subsequent releases.

BeagleV™ will be available for early access in March with larger availability in September. The early access version encompasses StarFive Jinghong 7100 SoC with powerful AI performance (3.5T NVDLA, 1T NNE), built-in ISP, 1 Gigabit ethernet, and a dual core 64-bit SiFive U74 RISC-V CPU with 8GB of LPDDR4 memory. It also has a dedicated hardware encoder/decoder supporting H.264 and H.265 4k@60fps, making it a perfect edge computing device with powerful AI capability. Supported by mainline Linux and a Debian-based BeagleBoard.org® open-source software image, BeagleV™ is ready for development out-of-the-box and prepared for the future.

Previously:
(2020) The Future of Computing? [soylentnews.org]

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