Lichee Console 4A
Les Pounder finds a fun, if flawed, tiny laptop that caters to RISC-V fans.
SPECS
SoM: LM4A (T-Head TH1520 12nm, Quad C910) RISC-V 1.5GHz GPU:
Imagination BXM-4-64 GPU Mem: 16GB LPDDR4X Storage: 128GB eMMC + external NGFF SSD, microSD Display: 7-inch touch 1,280x 800 LCD, 1x mini HDMI Input: 72-key keyboard, RedPoint Camera: 2MP front-facing Audio: 3.5mm headphone, stereo speakers, MEMS microphone Comms:
Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 5.4 Ports: 1x USB 3 Type A, 1x USB 3 Type C, 1x USB 2 Type A Battery: 3,000mAh, 12V 2.5A Size: 180x140x 20mm
L ooking like a ThinkPad that has been shrunk [a ShrinkPad? – ed], this little laptop isn’t a netbook but a RISC-V development platform. Inside is a RISC-V-powered SoM (system on module) SO-DIMM board connected to a carrier board. The SoM is a LicheePi 4A, similar to earlier Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. The SoM has the RISC-V CPU, RAM and eMMC storage baked in. Accessing the GPIO, HDMI and Ethernet ports requires a carrier board, in this case the laptop’s mainboard. Under the hood is a 1.5GHz quad-core RISC-V CPU and our review unit came with 16GB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC storage.