Usually we see tablet or phone makers getting into chip design, but this time it’s happening the other way around. Chinese chip designer RISC-V has developed a tablet called the MUSE Paper. We’re dealing with a 10.95 inch slate, detailed below.
It comes with a LCD panel, that supports a 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution and also features up to 16 GB of RAM. There’s up to 256 GB of storage on board and of course a RISC-V processor, instead of an AR, Intel or AMD chip. The tablet relies on a SpaceMiT K1 64 bit processor with 8 cores and a BXE-2-32 GPU. It all offers up to 2 TOPS of AI performance.
There’s another tablet out there, with a similar CPU, the DC Roma RISC-V Pad II, but that one runs on Android and this one on OpenHarmonyOS. This platform is the open source version of a software that runs on Huawei smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. The RISC-V architecture is still new and most existing chips are behind the AR and X86 processors in performance and software support.
We’re dealing with a royalty free alternative to the ARM and X86 chipsets, so anyone can design their own such chipset, without paying fees. Other tablet specs include LPDDR4X RAM, eMMC storage, a 13 MP back camera and an 8 MP front camera. There’s also a 7000 mAh battery, a microSD card slot and dual microphones, as well as stereo speakers.
The pricing in China starts at $262 for the version with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
