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ASUS Tinker V is the first single-board computer with a RISC-V chip from a Taiwanese manufacturer. It’s another provider betting on what will become the industry’s most promising
ASUS Tinker V is the first single-board computer with a RISC-V chip from a Taiwanese manufacturer. It’s another provider betting on what will become the industry’s most promising Open Source processor.
The Tinker Board series is ASUS’ alternative to solutions like the Raspberry Pi. Present since 2017, all versions so far have used the ARM architecture. The one in question bucks the trend as it is the company’s first SBC with a 64-bit RISC-V processor.
It was presented at the fair Built-in world which is taking place this week in Germany and is mainly dedicated to platform entry and development tasks. The board isn’t particularly powerful (nor is it necessary for this kind of task) with a 1GHz single-core AX45MP processor built by Renesas RZ/Five.
The ASUS Tinker V has 1GB of DDR4 memory, a microSD card slot for storage, and optional support for a 16GB eMMC module and SPI flash. The number of ports is not bad as you will see:
We don’t know the availability date or the price, but it must be pretty cheap. The board is officially compatible with Debian and Yocto Linux operating systems.
In case you are not familiar with this platform, say that it is a project that originated at the University of California, Berkeley, and its main goal is to develop the most promising Open Source processor in the industry today. It became popular when the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities in processors showed that it was necessary “driving changes in the core DNA of the semiconductor industry and how processor architectures are designed”.
The RISC-V Foundation is in charge of developing a new open source chip design based on the RISC architecture, which offers a cheaper (and open) way to manufacture semiconductors for today’s applications and all the new technologies that are coming for autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, virtual reality or data centers. The idea is this “Any processing foundry can manufacture on them without licensing the intellectual property.”
We’ve seen quite a few RISC-V boards in the last few months (StarFive VisionFive 2, Pine64 0x64, Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A, MangoPi MQ Pro, Allwinner Nezha…) and there are a few more announced for this year, including Intel’s Horse Creek, which will also produce development for this platform. As a use case and its growing importance, note that SiFive RISC-V will space flight c main processor high capacity spacecraft (HPSC) that NASA is developing for the arrival of humans on Mars.
Source: Muy Computer
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