RISC-V has made numerous progress in only a few years, however for something requiring 3D graphics acceleration, it’s not fairly there but. and we solely anticipate RISC-V SoC with Creativeness Applied sciences GPU to come back out later this yr on {hardware} corresponding to BeagleV SBC.
An OS that can undoubtedly require 3D graphics acceleration is Android, and work has already began since T-Head, a enterprise entity of Alibaba Group specializing in semiconductor chips, has already ported Android 10 (AOSP) on RISC-V structure with help for graphics and the touchscreen show.
The demo above runs on ICE EVB powered by a XuanTie C910 based mostly high-performance SoC board developed by T-Head. Particularly, the ICE SoC integrates two XuanTie C910 cores (RV64) @ 1.2 GHz, one different XuanTie C910V core @ 1.2 GHz with vector extensions, a single-core 3D GPU core, DDR4 reminiscence help, a GMAC (Gigabit Ethernet) interface, in addition to 4Kp60 HEVC/AVC/JPEG video decoding. The show decision seems restricted to 1920×1080 nonetheless.
You’ll discover directions to construct Android on RISC-V by your self on Github, however since AFAIK the board shouldn’t be publicly accessible proper now, it’s not potential to attempt it out except you’re employed for T-Head… Which means Android succesful RISC-V SBCs are most likely coming this yr, possible adopted by RISC-V TV field just a little later, and probably RISC-V smartphones in a number of years.
There’s comparable info on T-Head web site, plus an invite to affix the “Open Chip Community” group on DingTalk for folks within the venture.
By way of Drew Fustini.
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