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A fully documented RISC-V based manycore system (plus standardized extensions for graphics and DSP, probably leveraging "V" compute support) that's roughly as compact and powerful as the Mac Studio is today, but selling for a fraction of the price. That's actually not that far-off as a goal, the issue is that the software ecosystem today is very different from what it was like back then. The Amiga had no equivalent to today's AAA games or apps, pretty much everything was "indie" by current standards. So DevX and openness were key considerations that would actually make a difference to the commercial success of a platform. RISC-V today is popular with academics but has yet to see any kind of real adoption.


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