The world's first risc-v notebook computer is on pre-sale, which is designed for the meta universe!

Arrangement | Zheng Liyuan

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This year, 5 month ,RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond It was revealed in an interview ：“ This year you will see one RISC-V laptop .”

Originally thought Calista Redmond At that time, I didn't elaborate on this , What she meant “ This year, ” It may be the end of the year , I didn't expect it to come so soon ： Last week, , The world's first developer oriented RISC-V laptop ROMA Officially open presale , It is expected that 9 Shipment starts in month .

One 、 Equipped with four cores RISC-V processor , Limited pre sale

According to the pre-sale poster , from DeepComputing And interpretation （Xcalibyte） Made by two companies in Shenzhen, China ROMA, It will be equipped with four cores RISC-V processor 、Arm Security kernel and for video and AI Working GPU/NPU Accelerator , Have the highest 16GB Of RAM and 256GB Storage space , And support most RISC-V Distribution version .

It is worth mentioning that ,ROMA It will also be the first notebook computer in the industry to use an upgradeable system chip motherboard , Free upgrades will be provided later . It also has one RISC-V key , Foreign media The Register This speculation ：“ This may be a shortcut or custom key for a development environment .”

From the current information ,ROMA The pre-sale of seems to be limited in time ：“ To commemorate the world's first RISC-V The birth of notebook computers , Before applying for reservation within the specified time 100 Customers can get a unique NFT, And can be found in ROMA Engrave your name or company name .”

besides , of ROMA There is no way to know more technical details of ： be used for ROMA The four cores of RISC-V The specification of the processor has not been announced yet , At present, no pricing has been announced , There is only one pre-sale area for filling in personal information .

II. Involving Web3 and NFT

According to the The Register reports , There are many companies involved ROMA Overall development of ：DeepComputing Responsible for engineering design ; Interpretation （Xcalibyte） Responsible for system tuning ;PW The company is responsible for assembling the complete machine ;ECP The company is responsible for safety functions ; Specializing in audio and signal processing electronics Reexen The company is studying ROMA Voice Processing .

It's quite surprising that , As the world's first product to be launched RISC-V laptop ,ROMA Also with last year's sudden explosion Web3 and NFT of ：

• LatticeX Foundations and cryptocurrency companies XC Responsible for handling Roma Proof of interest blockchain and NFT function ;

• ROMA The poster also mentions ：“ As a person with NFT Create and publish and integrate MetaMask Style Wallet Web3 Friendly platform ,ROMA Will create a more integrated experience , future AR Glasses and AI The speaker will be completely RISC-V Run on Software , And by the RISC-V drive .”

• Interpretation （Xcalibyte） Founder and CEO Liang Yuning also said ："ROMA Notebook computers are designed for the meta universe , This laptop supports PoS、NFT and MetaMask Wallet function . We will try our best to provide the best for developers RISC-V Local development experience ."

3、 ... and 、RISC-V An important milestone of

Although currently relevant ROMA Many details of are still unknown , But its first RISC-V The definition of laptop has made RISC-V The community is excited .

as everyone knows , The current mainstream chip architecture is mainly x86 and Arm, among x86 Ranking first in market share , Apple's excellent self-development M Series of chips have driven Arm Proportion of architecture , In this situation RISC-V The emergence of notebook computers may have another impact on the situation ： If so RISC-V Chips are used in mainstream notebook computers , This will represent the open source instruction set architecture （ISA） An important milestone of —— You know, so far ,RISC-V Mainly limited to development kits 、 Embedded Technology , Now the leap towards full-featured client devices seems to be coming .

therefore ,RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond Yes ROMA We are looking forward to the coming out of ：“ROMA It embodies the power and RISC-V The potential of ecosystems , It will become a development board and be used for daily work and based on RISC-V An important bridge between business laptops . We appreciate all the contributions made by the whole development team to realize this important moment .”

RISC-V International Chief technical officer Mark Himelstein And added ：“ Native RISC-V Compilation is an important milestone . For those who want to be in RISC-V For developers who test their software on ,ROMA It is undoubtedly the best platform , stay ROMA The code developed on should be easily transferred to the embedded system .”

that , Are you interested in this first RISC-V Interested in laptops ？

Reference link ：

• https://xcalibyte.com.cn/en/roma-preorder/

• https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/riscv_roma_laptop/

• https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RISC-V-Dev-Laptop