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Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board [phoronix.com]

Canonical engineers spent the past few months back-porting various patches and ensuring that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS could run well on this RISC-V board. The StarFive VisionFive is a currently $179 USD RISC-V board that is intended to run full-blown RISC-V Linux distributions. The board is powered by a dual-core SiFive U74 RV64 SoC @ 1.0GHz, there is 8GB of system memory, a NVDLA deep learning accelerator engine, Tensilica-VP6 Vision DSP, and a neural network engine. The board also has WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.2, HDMI output, four USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and powered via USB-C or from the 40-pin GPIO header.

[...] Meanwhile StarFive is already teasing that the VisionFive V2 RISC-V SBC will be coming out soon as its successor.

Now you can run Ubuntu on a VisionFive single-board PC with a RISC-V processor [liliputing.com]

Aimed at developers, the first model launched last year with a dual-core processor [liliputing.com], while a second-gen version with a quad-core chip and other upgrades is expected to be announced August 23, 2022 [rvspace.org].

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