Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

Still, no consumer based RV23 mini-ITX or micro-ATX or ATX form factor devices.

And Orange PI 2 has a GFX blob issue.

>Still, no consumer based RV23 mini-ITX or micro-ATX or ATX form factor devices.

Sure. But there are RVA22+V such devices. RVA23 will eventually succeed these.

Many IP vendors announced RVA23 cores, but understand that the process from having a core design available for licensing to having a chip is very long, measured in years.

Among the designs that are further down in the pipeline of development, a highlight is Tenstorrent's Ascalon. According to them, a tapeout is "imminent". This was in the RISC-V Summit EU a few weeks ago. That'd mean RVA23 chips competitive with Zen5 in early 2026.

> That'd mean RVA23 chips competitive with Zen5 in early 2026

allegedly competitive, according to the vendor who is not impartial and with no actual benchmarks in existence to prove anything.

This is not a problem.

We are not running supercomputers at home.

We need to be able Math software on modern open hardware We need to be able to program with a better assembly We need to be able to have predictable code generation from our compilers We need to play with a new architecture and port software as an exercise We need to have choice

You need billions of operations per second for your electron apps to show you an alert telling you that you need to make an account on some website…