ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux
Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer.
The RISC-V-based ESWIN Computing EBC77 makes use of an ESWIN EIC7700X SoC providing four cores at 1.8GHz and a self-developed NPU rated for 20 TOPS, Imagination PowerVR graphics, and LPDDR5-6400 memory support. With a self-developed neural processing unit (NPU), it will likely be some time until if/when that NPU is supported by an upstream/mainline kernel release. So far I haven't seen any patches under review for enabling this NPU with an upstream Linux kernel.
The ESWIN EBC77 also features a 4-lane PCIe Gen3 FPC slot, dual USB 3.2 Gen1 slots, two USB 2.0 slots, micro HDMI output, Gigabit Ethernet, micro-SD card slot, 802.11ac WiFi, and other standard offerings for a modern single board computer.
Presumably Canonical will be focusing on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for their RISC-V port to this EBC77 SBC. It is worth noting this ESWIN SoC features RV64GC/RVA20 profile RISC-V cores. Canonical previously announced with Ubuntu 25.10 they are raising their RISC-V baseline to RVA23. Assuming that RVA23 baseline plan holds, this newly-announced RISC-V single board computer with Ubuntu support would be limited to Ubuntu 25.04 and older (or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for long-term support).
Canonical's announcement of Ubuntu RISC-V support for the EBC77 can be found via their blog.
Pricing on this latest RISC-V single board computer isn't clear with just being recently announced while the Amazon pre-order page is just reporting "currently unavailable" without pricing.
The RISC-V-based ESWIN Computing EBC77 makes use of an ESWIN EIC7700X SoC providing four cores at 1.8GHz and a self-developed NPU rated for 20 TOPS, Imagination PowerVR graphics, and LPDDR5-6400 memory support. With a self-developed neural processing unit (NPU), it will likely be some time until if/when that NPU is supported by an upstream/mainline kernel release. So far I haven't seen any patches under review for enabling this NPU with an upstream Linux kernel.
The ESWIN EBC77 also features a 4-lane PCIe Gen3 FPC slot, dual USB 3.2 Gen1 slots, two USB 2.0 slots, micro HDMI output, Gigabit Ethernet, micro-SD card slot, 802.11ac WiFi, and other standard offerings for a modern single board computer.
Presumably Canonical will be focusing on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for their RISC-V port to this EBC77 SBC. It is worth noting this ESWIN SoC features RV64GC/RVA20 profile RISC-V cores. Canonical previously announced with Ubuntu 25.10 they are raising their RISC-V baseline to RVA23. Assuming that RVA23 baseline plan holds, this newly-announced RISC-V single board computer with Ubuntu support would be limited to Ubuntu 25.04 and older (or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for long-term support).
Canonical's announcement of Ubuntu RISC-V support for the EBC77 can be found via their blog.
Pricing on this latest RISC-V single board computer isn't clear with just being recently announced while the Amazon pre-order page is just reporting "currently unavailable" without pricing.