<story><title>HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board</title><url>https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux3</author><text>This is really cool, and I&amp;#x27;d love to buy one, but it&amp;#x27;s an order of magnitude too pricey for me to justify the purchase when I already have a (admittedly probably slightly weaker) raspberry pi gathering dust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>This board isn&amp;#x27;t really intended to be a &amp;quot;raspberry pi for everyone&amp;quot; style release, its pretty much soley aimed at developers and companies that want to port their software to RISC-V so when the cheaper boards do arrive, they will have software to run on them.</text></comment>
<story><title>HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board</title><url>https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux3</author><text>This is really cool, and I&amp;#x27;d love to buy one, but it&amp;#x27;s an order of magnitude too pricey for me to justify the purchase when I already have a (admittedly probably slightly weaker) raspberry pi gathering dust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>While my Pi isn&amp;#x27;t gathering dust, I too don&amp;#x27;t have the budget for a 1k dev board... I get that they probably have a lot of cost to cover, but at this point only investors can really buy this hardware (i.e. a company needing open CPU hardware for research or future products might invest in a 1k board)</text></comment>