News World's first RISC-V handheld gaming system announced — retro gaming platform uses Linux

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Sipeed unveiled its Lichee Pocket 4A handheld gaming platform, using a RISC-V processor and running Debian Linux.

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[-Fran-]

Well, the fact they're using Genshin as part of their marketing, they know exactly the audience they're targetting.

Thing is, RISC-V is not ARM (ISA-wise), so I'll be curious to see how they'll make games run in it. Even if both run Android. Does RISC-V even run Android?

Regards.

 

[JamesJones44]

Thing is, RISC-V is not ARM (ISA-wise), so I'll be curious to see how they'll make games run in it. Even if both run Android. Does RISC-V even run Android?

Yes, Android recently added support for RISC-V. Several Linux kernels support RISC-V these day's and several programing languages as well, C/C++, Rust, GoLang, Java and Python being the most notable. .NET (C#/VB/etc.) is in the process of adding RISC-V support.

 

[hotaru251]

translucent plastic shell is S tier.

I personally grew up in 90's & gbc, n64, memory cards, ps1 controllers, etc all had them and they were great being able to see the insides of the device.

 

[10basetom]

This is a RISC-y product. Wish them well.