RISC-V International says that in China, the DeepComputing and Xcalibyte organizations have announced pre-orders for the first RISC-V laptops for developers. The "ROMA" development platform features a quad-core RISC-V processor, up to 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and works with most RISC-V Linux distributions. The
ROMA development platform sounds interesting, with a quad-core RISC-V CPU (although clock frequency is not specified), GPU/NPU accelerator, up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM, up to 256GB of storage, and claims to be " Upgrade your laptop to at a great price or for free.
DeepComputing and Xcalibyte say this laptop uses an "unreleased" quad-core RISC-V processor, so it's pretty specific. But frankly, it would have sounded more like a sarcastic statement had it not been relayed to me by RISC-V’s international PR contact.
ROMA Today’s press release goes on to state, “A Web3-friendly platform with NFT creation and publishing and an integrated MetaMask-style wallet, ROMA will create more integrated solutions with future AR glasses and AI speakers running entirely on RISC-V software. experience and powered by RISC-V hardware.”
This ROMA laptop is said to be available in limited quantities, which may give it a pricing premium. In addition, the press release is also full of buzzwords and few technical details. For example, to commemorate the birth of the world’s first native RISC-V development platform laptop, “The first 100 customers who pre-order ROMA will receive a unique NFT. And Your ROMA can be engraved with your name or company name "
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