Got a feint memory that FF may have raised this potential before as well a while ago.
Not sure but anyway.
Something from:
No pricing or exact availability info for now, but the first RISC-V laptop dubbed ROMA is powered by an unannounced quad-core processor complemented by up to 16 GB of LPDDR4X and up to 256 GB of storage. It also integrates a GPU and an NPU and offers support for most Linux distros.
www.notebookcheck.net
I noted the comment in this paragraph...highlighted.
The RISC-V instruction set architecture has been around for quite some time now, and, for all intents and purposes, it is one of the better alternatives to the
X86 ISA that is currently dominating the PC market. Despite its open source nature, RISC-V has not seen any meaningful mainstream adoption, but with the
latest push started a few years ago, the interest in this technology has been spiking considerably.
SiFive is hard at work on a few desktop PC incarnations and now we see DeepComputing and Xcalibyte collaborating to bring the first RISC-V-powered laptop.
Takes you to...
SiFive is aiming to catch up to ARM by committing to deliver significant performance improvements in record time. The Performance P650 processors releasing next year will scale to 16 cores and deliver up to 81% performance increase per core compared to ARM's Cortex-A75.
www.notebookcheck.net
SiFive announces RISC-V P650 16-core processor launching in mid-2022
RISC-V is catching up to ARM. (Image Source: min.news)
SiFive is aiming to catch up to ARM by committing to deliver significant performance improvements in record time. The Performance P650 processors releasing next year will scale to 16 cores and deliver up to 81% performance increase per core compared to ARM's Cortex-A75.
Who knows at this stage where the NPU is from or whether the Risc-V is SiFive but time will tell as specs drill down I guess.