We are excited to announce the official launch of ROMA, the world’s first RISC-V laptop, at the annual Open Source Operating System Technical Conference (OS2ATC) in Beijing on March 26th, 2023. We sincerely invite you to join us either in-person or online to witness the unveiling of ROMA’s superior design and functionality, as well as […]
Welcome Direct Drive Tech
Our latest partner Direct Drive Tech was founded in Hong Kong with the purpose of eliminating reduction gearboxes and creating direct, precision power solutions through direct-drive actuators. They have a complete set of technologies for robot joints including sensors, drivers and motor bodies that do away with traditional delicate and noisy parts to deliver vastly […]
ROMA COVID-19 Impact
Since August 28, a new round of covid infections has broken out in Shenzhen. Eight of the city’s districts have been in lockdown and transportation has been limited. There are also outbreaks in Guangdong and Sichuan Provinces which have put a severe strain on our manufacturing partners and their logistic supply chains. Rest assured […]
The latest on Ubuntu and browser support
It’s been tough getting our GPU working. The proprietary binary GPU drivers don’t support the many different versions of graphic stack frameworks like Mesa. But the good news is that after a huge amount of hard work we have managed to get things running with the latest Ubuntu LTS release 22.04. Most of the apps […]
A thousand reasons to welcome 1000KX
We are very pleased to welcome our newest partner 1000KX. Formally established in 2015, the company started life as Chuanglian Computer in 2002. They were the first service company in Wuhan, Hubei to offer computer, mobile phone and smart peripheral equipment sales, service, repair and recycling. At present, 1000KX has three hundred ‘1000 Quick Repair’ […]
A New Partner, A New Chip
On the hardware side, we are very glad to introduce our latest partner Reexen. Reexen is an inference sensing and in-memory computing startup with offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu and Zurich. They develop ultra low-power audio and visual signal processing chips. They have already found great market success with true wireless stereo (TWS) headsets and other wearables. With high-efficiency chips, Reexen is targeting AR/VR/XR, AIoT and autonomous driving applications. But Reexen’s strengths don’t just […]
THE HARD WORK IS PAYING OFF!
Testing The GPU. After a lot of hard work, we have managed to get the GPU working for Ubuntu 20.02 and ChromiumOS. Below you can see the spinning cube in full 60fps. The difficulty in getting it running for the various Linux distributions lies in the fact that the proprietary binary release of the GPU […]
ANOTHER ROMA MILESTONE
We’ve just celebrated another significant Roma moment as we move to a final PCB layout and simulation test. The board looks good! Watching components being added to the PCB, it’s great to know that wasted parts can be used by our new partner, Diode Planet Man who recycles unwanted items into fantastic toys and art […]
Check out one more product powered by RISC-V!
Ready, Set, Go! We are really happy to show you some cool RISC-V version testing, courtesy of our partner Beijing Dynamics.
Meet Our First Partner – Beijing Dynamics!
We are very proud to introduce you to our very first partner, a RISC-V enthusiastic and good friend Tony who runs Beijing Dynamics. Without any advance notice, Tony has already planned a RISC-V chipset (CSM32RV20 by CSM, http://www.csm-ic.com). And he is getting ready to ship it to our first 99 owners who have purchased the […]