RISC-V [FOSS ISA]

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What is RISC-V?
Open Source Instruction Set Architecture developed by a team based in UC Berkeley
Freedom U500, A Linux-Capable, 1.5ghz Quad-Core RV64GC Based Soc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp6znwaZ5xo

News:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hi-five-unleashed-the-first-linux-capable-risc-v-single-board-computer-is-here/
https://www.open-electronics.org/hifive-unleashed-the-worlds-first-risc-v-based-linux-development-board/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7v0kyj/hifive_unleashed_the_worlds_first_riscvbased/
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/cpus/sifive-announces-64-bit-15ghz-risc-v-hifive-unleashed-sbc/1/


Buy RISC-V:
HiFive Unleashed (Dev Board) - https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed
General Purpose computing (not yet released) - http://www.lowrisc.org/about/

For general-purpose computing, the non-profit LowRISC project aims to ship a RISC-V SoC for use in open hardware. LowRISC is founded by Robert Mullins—a co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation—and supported by the University of Cambridge.

Assorted links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
https://www.sifive.com/posts/2017/10/04/sifive-launches-first-risc-v-based-cpu-core-with-linux-support/
https://hackernoon.com/why-we-need-risc-v-f94e3929891b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14282978
https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/618724/open-source-chip-mimics-linux-path-take-closed-x86-arm-cpus/
https://riscv.org/risc-v-foundation/