The Pine64 open source community announced the availability of the STAR64 single board computer, built using the StarFive JH7110 (SiFive U74 1.5GHz) quad-core processor based on the RISC-V architecture. The board will be available for order on April 4 and will retail for $70 with 4GB RAM and $90 with 8GB RAM.
The board is equipped with 128MB QSPI NOR Flash, 2.4GHz/5Ghz MIMO WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.2, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, HDMI 2.0, PCIe slot, SD Card, eMMC, 1 USB 3.0 port, 3 ports USB 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack, 40-pin GPIO. Size 133 Γ 80 Γ 19 mm. To accelerate graphics, the BX-4-32 GPU from Imagination Technology is used, which supports OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan 1.2.
RISC-V provides an open and flexible system of machine instructions that allows you to create microprocessors for arbitrary applications, without requiring royalties and without imposing conditions on use. RISC-V allows the creation of completely open SoCs and processors. Currently, on the basis of the RISC-V specification, various companies and communities under various free licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache 2.0) are developing several dozen variants of microprocessor cores, more than a hundred SoCs and already manufactured chips. RISC-V support has been present since the releases of Glibc 2.27, binutils 2.30, gcc 7, and Linux kernel 4.15.
Source: opennet.ru