119 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 16 Oct 2022 \ on: Sub-$10 linux-capable risc-v board bitcoin
Admittedly, I don’t keep up with The space, but pretty surprised to see raspberry pis being competed with. I always imagined the margins were too small and hardware too expensive/hard to develop.
Same, but I’m thrilled to see it. Cheap stuff gets really cheap, affordable stuff gets cheap, expensive stuff gets affordable, crazy stuff gets expensive.
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Keep in mind that this is a RISC-V processor, rather than ARM, so it's not directly competing with Raspberry Pi for the segment of the market that wants to use RISC-V.
Also while hardware is still a lot harder and more expensive to develop than software, it's not impossible. A little $10 board like this is something a single individual could develop on their own with only a few thousand of dollars worth of equipment.
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I’m excited to see low cost riscv dev boards. Would be great if in the not too distant future we could build real systems that are open from the ISA up through the application code. Something I think bitcoiners should pay attention to.
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Pine is a company that goes like “there is cool hardware in the world lets throw them to the wall and see if it sticks”. Lots of interesting hardware with stuff like PCI-E adapters on SBCs but you’ll have a rougher experience than what you’d have with Raspberry Pi’s or just plain amd64 hardware.
Nothing wrong with that and I actually favor RockPros over pis but don’t expect to have a library of software as big as the one for RPis.
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