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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24419041

RISC-V laptops offer customizable and affordable personal computing with their open-source instruction set architecture. Early versions have demonstrated their potential, but lagged in performance. But in 2025, Framework and DeepComputing are partnering to make the best RISC-V laptop yet, promising an alternative to laptops powered by x86 and Arm.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nobody has really made performance implementations yet. They're all IoT level or low end mobile device.

Tenstorrent are probably the closest to having something serious.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the point. I don't think RISC-V is coming even close to high-performance ARM chips, so building a laptop around RISC-V instead of ARM makes no sense to me.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are under development, and there is a small market for development machines. It also allows the manufacturer to understand the issues they'll get once the high performance processors are here.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So basically development toys.