dc-roma

Eight of the same cores in the DC-Roma II will match the 24 core i9 and be more than three times faster than the 8 core M1 Mac.

The Lichee Pi 3A and Milk-V Jupiter with the same SoC were not far behind it, and the MuseBook and DC-Roma II laptops were not far behind them.

There are also already quite a number of other options to get the same SoC: Sipeed Lichee Pi 3A (or compute module 3A), Milk-V Jupiter (mini-ITX) or laptops including the MuseBook and DC-Roma II.

I don't want to get a DC-Roma 1 and then a DC-Roma 2, ending up with 2 entire laptops of e-waste when I should be able to upgrade boards and keep the screen/battery/keyboard/touchpad/webcam/speakers/microphone/fingerprint reader, ending up with 1 complete laptop of e-waste and 1 additional board of e-waste.

The Sipeed Lichee Console 4A [0] contains the Lichee Module 4A (one of those SBCs on a module like the raspberry pi compute modules) and it looks like the Lichee book 4A is doing the same thing [1] The DC-Roma 2 [2] appears to be this sbc [3] adapted to a laptop.

As for what is on the market, the CanMV-K230 with RVV 1.0 shipped in November 2023, and a wide variety of boards and laptops with the SpacemiT K1/M1 SoCs with octa core CPU with 256 bit RVV 1.0 shipped in the 2nd half of 2024, including the Banana Pi BPI-F3, Milk-V Jupiter, Sipeed Lichee Pi 3A, Deep Computing DC-Roma II laptop, MuseBook.