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First RISC-V laptop arrives

by on04 July 2022


It will probably get better

The world’s first RISC-V laptop has just hit the shelves to a collective yawn from reviewers.

The ROMA development platform boasts the forthcoming quad-core RISC-V processor for “the fastest, seamless RISC-V software development experience” although since it is the first such titles are fairly silly.  It would also be the slowest and most expensive RISC-V experience but that is the disadvantage of being the first off the blocks.  

According to the press release the quad-core RISC-V CPU features a security enclave processor, up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM, 256GB of internal storage, and support for most Linux variant operating systems. It provides a Web3-friendly platform with NFT creation and publication as well as an integrated MetaMask-style wallet.

Founder and CEO of Xcalibyte and DeepComputing Yuning Liang said that with its PoS, NFT, and MetaMask-style wallet, ROMA was born for the Metaverse.

“This is the laptop of the future. We will spare no effort to provide the best RISC-V native development experience for developers,” he said.

Quantities are said to be limited for this ROMA laptop, which likely will put a pricing premium on it.  There are no signs what the price will be, or if you will be able to run Crystalis or any other insect on it.

 

Last modified on 04 July 2022
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