• KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Afaik the StarFive SOCs used in SBCs are a lot slower than current ARM offerings. Part of that might be because software support is worse, so maybe compilers and related tooling aren’t yet optimized for them?

    Hopefully development on these continues to improve though. The biggest nail in the coffin for Pi alternatives has been software support.

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      5 months ago

      It’s also a super new architecture and completely open source. Development will simply be slower. There’s enough “mainstream” Pi competitors with risc-v offerings though that I’m confident that it will happen.