RISC-V

Someone recently asked about RISC-V apps, and someone else asked if there was a list of apps available. I thought it might be a good idea to start one here.

These are some of the apps I'm interested in, that apparently run on RISC-V (I've not tested them because I don't have a RISC-V board yet) :

• Ardour
• Audacity
• Calindori
• Gedit
• GIMP
• Handbrake
• Inkscape
• Krita
• Moment - a Matrix client
• Nitro
• qTox
• Scribus
• Sphinx
• Stellarium
• Tor Browser
• VLC

I've seen LibreOffice Writer running too.

Podman and Docker also work.

If you know of other apps (and I'm sure there must be), please add them below.

Coming to a desktop-class mini-ITX motherboard in 2024.

Nick Brown, Maurice Jamieson, Joseph Lee, Paul Wang

The Sophon SG2042 is the world's first commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU for high performance workloads and an important question is whether the SG2042 has the potential to encourage the HPC community to embrace RISC-V. In this paper we undertaking a performance exploration of the SG2042 against existing RISC-V hardware and high performance x86 CPUs in use by modern supercomputers. Leveraging the RAJAPerf benchmarking suite, we discover that on average, the SG2042 delivers, per core, between five and ten times the performance compared to the nearest widely available RISC-V hardware. We found that, on average, the x86 high performance CPUs under test outperform the SG2042 by between four and eight times for multi-threaded workloads, although some individual kernels do perform faster on the SG2042. The result of this work is a performance study that not only contrasts this new RISC-V CPU against existing technologies, but furthermore shares performance best practice.

The only difference [from Arm] is that the marketplace is allowed to use these standards without proprietary licences from a controlling company.

A rational, sensible response from Calista Redmond.

Apparently China is "abusing" RISC-V! I simply don't understand the mentality. :/

Hi

Does anyone have a Beagle-V?

Does it come with a pre-installed OS?

Is there a Debian image for it??

TIA

China, apparently, accounts for 24% of Arm's revenue. They're pushing RISC-V.

Qualcomm, one of Arm's largest customers, is pushing RISC-V.

Samsung also has RISC-V cores in its SoCs.

Broadcom wants into the NXP, Qualcomm, Bosch RISC-V consortium too...

Where's MediaTek?

Sipeed has already listed the Lichee Pi 4A on its AliExpress store, starting at $119 with an LM4A module with 8GB of RAM and an 8GB eMMC and rising to $179 for a version with 16GB of RAM and 128GB eMMC. The Lichee Cluster 4A will launch next week, the company has promised, at an as-yet unknown price point, with the Lichee Console 4A and Lichee Pad 4A releasing in September and October starting from $299.