Interesting that they’ve added RISC-V before ARM. Wonder if anyone’s working on that. There are so many ARM SBC designs out there, you’d think it would be straightforward (though obviously not trivial) to adapt one of those designs to the Framework mainboard format.
I get your point, but there's simply no way this happened in a vacuum, at least not in this case. IMO it is far more important to acknowledge the things that Framework /did do/ in support of this project, even if a lot of that work simply came from properly publishing design specs, mechanical drawings, and other documentation. It's very encouraging to see Framework actively support and promote the 3rd party ecosystem around their products, designs, and specs.
Battery life is going to be determined by your screen brightness, not the CPU.
> About three years ago, I came across information that the RISC-V U74 core had roughly 1.8 times lower performance per clock compared to the ARM Cortex-A53.
Are there other advantages?
What is the immediate marginal cost of an ARM license per core(s)?
U74 does very easily outdo A53 in performance, power and area.