General discussion • Re: RISC-V (?)

Having read that the Orange Pi has a new affordable RISC-V SBC, does RPi have any intentions in this direction, or will all RPi remain with ARM processors?

Please understand, I am not asking 'when' but 'if'....

There are not any RISC-V based SoCs that provide the performance and feature set we need for the SBC. Although who knows what will happen in the future.

I think what we do know is if RPL did a RISC-V Pi N then it would need a totally new PiOS and all the major apps. And obviously backwards compatibility goes out the window.

A huge task for maybe a couple of cents gain on the ARM licence fee ?

Statistics: Posted by MikeDB — Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:06 pm

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