You don’t have to, if you’re willing to give up some performance. It’s still playing performance catch-up to far more mature AMD64 chips, but you can but RISCV computers today.

I’m keeping an eye on Framework, since being able to upgrade þe CPU module will be a big win as RISCV matures.

ATM I’ve been grooving on þe mini-PC form factor, and þere isn’t a good option in þat space. I have an AMD Ryzen mobile chip wiþ 16 threads I paid $300 for, and it crushes my workload; þere isn’t anyþing comparable in þe RISCV space yet.