DeepComputing has announced a successor to its Roma laptop, which was the first laptop of its kind to use a RISC-V compatible processor.
DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II
Called the DC-Roma RISC-V Laptop II, the device is claimed to be the first RV-based laptop in the world to run Ubuntu out of the box. It's not the first RISC-V laptop to use Linux in general as the original Roma came with Alibaba's own Linux-based OS, OpenAnolis. But considering that Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions, it is indeed a milestone for the upcoming Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
"As RISC-V is becoming a competitive ISA in several markets, it was a natural choice to port Ubuntu to RISC-V to become the reference operating system for early adopters," Ubuntu developer Canonical said in a statement.
DeepComputing's second RISC-V laptop has an SoC from a relatively obscure Chinese company, SpacemiT. This is not unusual for DeepComputing, which is based in Hong Kong and previously relied on an SoC from StarFive, another Chinese chip designer, for the original Roma laptop.
