{"id":849,"date":"2024-06-19T00:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/framework-laptop-13-to-offer-new-drop-in-risc-v-mainboard-for-enhanced-customization\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:48:52","slug":"framework-laptop-13-to-offer-new-drop-in-risc-v-mainboard-for-enhanced-customization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/framework-laptop-13-to-offer-new-drop-in-risc-v-mainboard-for-enhanced-customization\/","title":{"rendered":"Framework Laptop 13 to Offer New Drop-In RISC-V Mainboard for Enhanced Customization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 <em>\u2014consider me jealous, btw\u2014<\/em> or are considering buying one in the near future, you may be interested to know that a RISC-V motherboard option is in the works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deepcomputing.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepComputing<\/a>, the company behind the recently-announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/06\/the-worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-running-ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ubuntu RISC-V laptop<\/a>, is working with Framework Computer Inc, the company behind the popular, modular, and Linux-friendly Framework laptops, on a RISC-V mainboard.<\/p>\n<p>This is a new announcement; the component itself is in early development, and there\u2019s no tentative price tag or pre-order date pencilled in.<\/p>\n<p>But we do know the board will be based around the StarFive JH7110, which uses the RV64GC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), i.e., it\u2019s a 64-bit processor. It has a quad-core U74 processor running at up to 1.5 GHz, plus an integrated GPU running uptown 600 MHz.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If the name sounds familiar it\u2019s because this is the same SoC used in Pine64\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omglinux.com\/first-risc-v-tablet-pine64\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PineTab-V tablet<\/a>, and in its Star64 single-board computer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Fans of Framework laptops have come to expect performant chips from the likes of Intel and AMD, but the StarFive JH7110 is far from that \u2014 it\u2019s a fairly slow, unpowered chip for driving a full-fledged desktop computing or running any particularly intensive workloads.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And unlike the octa-core <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.banana-pi.org\/en\/BPI-F3\/SpacemiT_K1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpacemiT K1<\/a> being used in the new Ubuntu RISC-V laptop, it lacks an onboard NPU for AI\/ML uses which.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The performance (or lack thereof) in the StarFive JH7110 chip is something Framework mention in their <a href=\"https:\/\/frame.work\/blog\/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blog announcement<\/a>, explaining:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>We want to be clear that in this generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and performance aren\u2019t yet competitive with our Intel and AMD-powered Framework Laptop Mainboards<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><cite>Nirav Patel, Framework Computer Inc<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Additionally, the Framework RISC-V mainboard will use soldered memory and non-upgradeable eMMC storage (though it can boot from microSD cards). It will \u2018drop into\u2019 any Framework Laptop 13 chassis (or Cooler Master Mainboard Case), per Framework\u2019s modular ethos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But hardware is only half the equation \u2014 what\u2019s the software side like?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Well, Framework mention DeepComputing is \u201cworking closely with the teams at <a href=\"https:\/\/canonical.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canonical<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/redhat.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hat<\/a> to ensure Linux support is solid through Ubuntu and Fedora\u201d, which is great news, and cements Canonical\u2019s seriousness to supporting Ubuntu on RISC-V.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Framework owners curious about trying out this new alternative to Intel, AMD, and ARM chips, and who have the resources to invest both time and money, will likely find the Framework RISC-V motherboard an attractive option.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 \u2014consider me jealous, btw\u2014 or are considering buying one in the near future, you may be interested to know that a RISC-V motherboard option is in the works. 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