Pine64 Begins Presale PineTab-V With RISC-V-soc And PineTab 2 This Week

Pine64 will start pre-sale of its PineTab-V tablet on April 13. It will be the company’s first tablet with a RISC-V soc. On the same date, the company will also release a PineTab 2, which has an Arm chip. Both tablets will be available starting at $159.

Pine64 confirms that pre-orders of its PineTab-V and PineTab 2 will begin on Thursday, April 13. The two tablets show great similarities to each other, with the different socs as the main difference. The PineTab-V features a JH7110 chip with four U74 cores which are based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.

The PineTab-V will be the company’s first RISC-V tablet, although it also introduced a Star64 single-board computer with RISC-V chip earlier this month. The tablet currently has “limited Linux support” and comes “without an OS and without any promises.” Pine64 says the PineTab-V is primarily intended as an experimental product to serve as a RISC-V development platform.

The PineTab 2 in turn has an RK3566 soc with four Cortex-A55 cores from Arm. This tablet has been used in Pine64 products for some time. The PineTab 2 comes with a build of DanctNix Arch Linux for Arm. The company describes that software as an early version, but says improvements and additional features will be added soon. Pine64 announced the PineTab 2 in December.

The tablets also have the same IPS screen with a 10.1″ diagonal and a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. Both variants have a 6000mAh battery, two USB-C connections, a video output, a 2-megapixel camera on the front and a 5-megapixel sensor on the back. Pine64 offers two configurations: a variant with 4GB Lpddr4 memory and 64GB eMMC storage and a model with 8GB memory and 128GB storage. The tablets come with a magnetic keyboard, which also functions as a cover.

Source: Pine64