When Pine64 launched its RISC-V tablet earlier this year they were clear from the start: software support, particularly usable desktop Linux distros,

The RISC-V powered Pinetab-V seems to be progressing very well.

RISC-V is an open source architecture competing with the likes of ARM, and might help pave the way for some truly open hardware. It has also proven itself power efficient, so this could be good news for all kinds of mobile linux devices down the road. Debian is already making it a supported architecture.