Pine64 Oz64 is a single-board PC with ARM and RISC-V CPU cores - Liliputing

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The way the Sophgo SG2000 chip works, you can select to use either the 1 GHz RISC-V core or the 1 GHz ARM core, but you cannot use both at the same time.

  Oh thats so strange. This is a really odd chip milkv.io/chips/sg2000

  I thought it was maybe a FPGA with a switchable personality. But I can’t confirm my thought.

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• PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I’d like a heterogeneous architecture sbc please”

  They have played us for absolute fools.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can think of one valid use case for this unsolved by any other solution:

  Lets say a company has an SoC board base product currently currently base on ARM. They want to eventually migrate to RISC-V based solution.

  If a company has a product currently written to use ARM compiled code, but wants to transition to RISC-V (which isn’t ready yet), they could deploy this board which could run today’s ARM implementation, and it would be future-ready when the RISC-V implementation would be released without having to replace hardware.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The award for “WTF Design” goes to…

  So you get either a mediocre ARM or a mediocre RISC-V, plus an even worse RISC-V, plus an 8051 core.

  I’ve seen a lot of crazy, stupid SOC designs in the last decades, but this is extraordinary.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of my Commodore 128. You could boot it into 64 bit mode for legacy programs. I had exactly one C-128 game (which was a super complicated combat flight sim) so I only used it in C-64 mode.

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• aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But why?

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To experiment, I guess

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    • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Experiment how?

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