The world’s first laptop designed for RISC-V development, the Roma laptop, has been officially delivered to customers. The laptop is powered by a high-quality RISC-V processor with a quad-core 1.5GHz 64-bit CPU and a dual-core GPU. It also has 8GB of RAM, 128GB of eMMC storage, and a 1TB SSD. The laptop comes pre-installed with a multilingual version of the openKylin operating system.
The Roma laptop was developed by Deep
Digital Intelligence and debugged by Jianshi Technology. It is a collaborative
project spearheaded by the RISC-V Foundation. The laptop is designed to provide
developers with a genuine native RISC-V development experience, including
high-performance toolchains and development tools.
Deep Digital Intelligence has not
disclosed the price of the Roma laptop or its customers. However, the company
has committed to donating a batch of RISC-V laptops to higher education
institutions and research institutes dedicated to studying RISC-V. The company
has also announced plans to release a new generation of Roma laptops by the end
of the year. The upcoming version will feature a more advanced SoC, operating
system, and a suite of innovative RISC-V software solutions.
The delivery of the Roma laptop is a
significant step towards the commercialization of RISC-V. RISC-V is a free and
open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) that is gaining popularity among
developers and researchers. RISC-V is seen as a potential alternative to the
dominant x86 and Arm architectures.
The delivery of the Roma laptop is a major
milestone for the RISC-V community. It is a sign that RISC-V is maturing and
becoming a viable option for developers. The laptop is also expected to help to
accelerate the development of RISC-V software and applications.