Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan
by FullyFunctional on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:03PM
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? Unless you intend to fab your own RISC-V processor, once they become available, they will most certainly be priced competitively (or they won't sell). The first models will be available in 2018 and more will follow.
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I thought the Talos is out now?
EDIT: Crap, pre-order.
https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html
I have been skimming too light on the market details for that bad boy. Only proves the point that the high-cost might be the price of helping proprietary hardware feel the sting of changing cultural tides.
Talos II is POWER9. POWER also has an open design, so it's effectively the same from a freedom perspective as RISC-V (with the distinction that you can buy POWER chips today, but you can't buy RISC-V ones).