The Quartz64 Model A is a single-board computer featuring the Rockchip RK3566 SoC. This SoC combines a quad-core, ARM Cortex-A55 CPU with a Mali-G52-2EE GPU.
…as said, I haven’t kept up to date. Don’t shoot the messenger shoot Pine64’s webdev.
The Pinecil was their first Risc-V product and the first commercial product with Risc-V made by anyone.
As a dedicated and user-programmable device, probably yes but e.g. Seagate has been shipping HDDs with RISC-V controllers for ages. Apparently they want/need custom silicon and paying ARM for a CortexM0 license was just something they decided wasn’t necessary, and actually annoying as you can’t easily extend the ARM to include custom instructions, ARM is very protective of compatibility and everything.
Quoth the first link you posted:
…as said, I haven’t kept up to date. Don’t shoot the messenger shoot Pine64’s webdev.
As a dedicated and user-programmable device, probably yes but e.g. Seagate has been shipping HDDs with RISC-V controllers for ages. Apparently they want/need custom silicon and paying ARM for a CortexM0 license was just something they decided wasn’t necessary, and actually annoying as you can’t easily extend the ARM to include custom instructions, ARM is very protective of compatibility and everything.