Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by solarkraft 1269 days ago
Maybe, but Espressif already has their own RISC-V chip (ESP32-C), which is perfectly compatible with their development platform (IDF), with a Thread-compatible model (ESP32-H2) coming next year.

Both cheap and profiting from the big community.

I'll buy an Ox64 (the ability to run Linux interested me), but Espressif isn't giving up easily. A few years ago, when Espressif was in more of a niche, it would've been an advantage to not have to use their weird Xtensa instruction set. But nowadays most toolchains have apparently added support and it's not a big problem anymore.
2 comments
petre 1269 days ago
It seems to be a direct competitor to the ESP32-C6 which also has WiFi 6, BLE and 802.15.4. It will only be supported in v5.1 of the IDF, so not quite there yet.

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs

link
omniscient_oce 1267 days ago
The Linux support on the Ox64 is supposedly pretty poor so far.
link