Keep in mind that this is a RISC-V processor, rather than ARM, so it's not directly competing with Raspberry Pi for the segment of the market that wants to use RISC-V.
Also while hardware is still a lot harder and more expensive to develop than software, it's not impossible. A little $10 board like this is something a single individual could develop on their own with only a few thousand of dollars worth of equipment.
I’m excited to see low cost riscv dev boards. Would be great if in the not too distant future we could build real systems that are open from the ISA up through the application code. Something I think bitcoiners should pay attention to.
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