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The olimex company just announced the: RVPC - a kit PC with a RISC-V CPU, and they say it'll cost US$1 (olimex.wordpress.com)
submitted 2 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It will support PS/2 keyboards and VGA. Intended to be a learning platform for RISC-V coding, it's only got 2k of RAM. (I tried finding a 3rd party source for this announcement but I struck out, so I'm linking the actual olimex webpage. Not affiliated with them, just thought this looked neat.)

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think defining a microcontroller kit as a PC is an accurate description.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Some ARM CPUs that are advertised as microcontrollers have 32 bit address spaces and roughly the same power as an i486.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago

A CPU on its own cannot be a microcontroller alone via its definition; as a microcontroller contains a CPU and other needed components to drive it.

No microcontroller is going to beat a computer with a modern microprocessor on complex computing though. But it's good to know tech is still improving on all sides.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Yeah nah still in micro controller space. When you say PC it comes w with up to date expectations attached and VGA is not one of them. Or 2k RAM.