Game on for RISC-V
World’s first RISC-V handheld gaming system announced – Tomshardware
Tomshardware page reports on the Sipeed Lichee Pocket 4A console:
RISC-V-based processors have been making inroads into a wide range of applications, from tiny microcontrollers to data center processors. However, RISC-V hasn’t been used for many consumer or gaming devices (except, perhaps, in the form of the microcontrollers mentioned above). Sipeed is a Chinese company trying to change that with its Lichee Pocket 4A console, one of the industry’s first RISC-V-based handhelds, targeting mobile gaming.
Sipeed officially positions the Lichee Pocket 4A as a “RISC-V Debian+Android RetroGame platform.” As the name suggests, it’s designed to run simplistic retro games using GPU acceleration or even software rendering. The unit uses the LM4A system-on-module based on Alibaba’s T-Head TH1520 RISC-V processor. It packs four RISC-V Xuantie C910 general-purpose cores running at 2.50 GHz and an unknown Imagination GPU.
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