LowRISC
LowRISC is non-profit open hardware organization that aims to develop open hardware, such as computer chips that sell for around $10 and inexpensive open-source development boards.[1][2] One of their projects is the LowRISC system on a chip, which is still in development.[3] LowRISC is a RISC-V 64-bit SoC that can run Linux, but it lacks a GPU.[4][1] The current design occupies an area of 9 mm2 on a 28nm process and is intended to run at clock speeds of 500 MHz to 1 GHz on 40 nm lithography and 1.0 to 1.5 GHz at 28nm.[3][2] It features 512 KB of L2 cache and a 32-bit memory controller.[2] LowRISC plans to release the source code under a BSD license.[3] The project is being led by Robert Mullins and receives support from the University of Cambridge.[3][1] Mullins was one of the founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, but there is otherwise no relationship between LowRISC and the Raspberry Pi foundation.[3]
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