Imagination gets into the board of RISC-V development

Imagination Technologies announced that Shanghai-based StarFive, a RISC-V developer-board supplier, has licensed the IMG B-Series GPU IP to support its latest RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). Imagination thinks the collaboration will help grow the RISC-V ecosystem. StarFive is including Imagination’s GPU in the production version of its $119/$149 85mm × 70mm BeagleV AI single-board computer, announced in January 2021. StarFive says the BeagleV is the world’s first RISC-V AI SBC used in edge computing and customized for the Linux operating system. It has StarFive’s self-developed AI vision processing SoC, the Jinghong 7100, which has a RISC-V U74 dual-core CPU with 2MB