First RISC-V PC
FOSDEM attendees glimpse the Linux-based board.
At this year’s FOSDEM, SiFive ( www.sifive.
com) announced the HiFive Unleashed – the first Linux-ready RISC-V System on Chip (SoC), which features a quad-core, 64-bit Freedom U540 chip. It costs $999 and can be bought from Crowd Supply ( www.crowdsupply. com/sifive/hifive-unleashed), with deliveries around 30 June 2018.
The board features the first multi-core RISC-V processor that supports Linux, and comes with four 1.5GHz U54 RV64GC CPU cores and an E51 RV64IMAC management core with Sv39 virtual memory support. 8GB of DDR4 RAM, 32MB quad SPI flash, a microSD slot, Gigabit Ethernet port and FMC connector round out the features.