Info and pre-orders in their store page: DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC, RISC-V Mainboard II for Framework Laptop 13 – DeepComputing
Looks like a big step up from gen 1.
Just saw this too, quite exciting as JH7110 is really a bit outdated by now.
I’m surprised it’s both vector instruction compatible and out-of-order (didn’t think those chips existed yet)!
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Related news article: RISC-V mini AI PC that fits inside a Framework laptop shell revealed — DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC claims 50 TOPS, 64GB RAM | Tom's Hardware
TomsHardware apparently thinks that it’s a EsWin EIC7702X.
Edit: https://www.eswincomputing.com/en/bocupload/2024/06/19/1718792113959fd7u8.pdf The is the specification sheet of the abovementioned CPU.
The EIC7702X seems to be the same family of CPUs as the one that the HiFive P550 uses. Those are benchmarked here:
Single core spec performance is roughly 90% that of a Arm A73 core through some quick calculations.
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The news release from DeepComputing, and the media articles about this topic are below!
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40TOPS at $299, but no mentioning of debug expansion port
Only if you stay disconnected at all time or the AI application is FOSS, so it won’t send data to someone else’s computer behind your back
What about power efficiency or how much runtime on a 61Wh battery?
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The other SBC that uses this (HiFive P550) runs at a constant 15W because it never clocks below 1.4 GHz (TBP). It also has half the cores. If DC’s mainboard has twice the cores and clocks at 2 GHz I don’t image the power being great!
Hopefully power management exists for this chip!
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Mere weeks after the first one releases, they decide to introduce another one. Seriously?
Really wish I’d have known the drastically improved one was going to release so soon so I could have skipped the first one.
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Not excited about the soldered ram but otherwise this seems exciting. Hopefully they don’t price gouge the 64GB model.
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To be fair, they’ve been up front about a newer version being released in 2025.
Which considering this is coming out in Q3, this board is deep into that window.
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Apparently has been fully released now.
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Has everyone from the first batch received their motherboard? I’m awaiting their second batch that was supposed to be this month but this has been delayed.
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FYI I am testing a Mainboard II, and posting my notes as I go to this issue: DC-ROMA AI PC - RISC-V Mainboard II · Issue #82 · geerlingguy/sbc-reviews · GitHub
If there’s anything specific you’d like me to test, let me know!
This version of the board is a marked improvement over the JH7110. But it’s still not near current Arm SBC capabilities, especially efficiency (the system idles around 25W, though goes into a sleep state at 2.2W).
It’s certainly still a machine for RISC-V devs, and not the general public. But it has a lot going for it. After I finish my testing I’ll post a video/blog post, but for now, just thought I’d share so people can follow along with my progress!
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Ah so that rules out using it as either a media frontend, a mini home-server, or a laptop. There goes all my plans. I’m still waiting for my tracking number so I’ve got some time to figure out another use-case lest it join the drawer of neat but unused toys.
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It’s definitely got some quirks, and since the P550 cores aren’t RVA23, I don’t imagine this particular board would have support beyond 2029 or so anyway. The nice thing is you can yank it out of the laptop and put in a different mainboard if you want 
I think the DC-ROMA II is great… for RISC-V developers, or people deeply curious about the state of RISC-V as of 2025. But it’s not very fast, it uses a lot of power (so shorter battery life), and it still has some compatibility speed bumps, so unless you develop software for RISC-V or really are into experimental hardware, I’d stick with AMD/Intel mainboards for now.
Would be interesting to see someone partner up for an Arm mainboard though. Cix has a nice chip that still needs some efficiency work though.
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Regarding the RISC-V boards. I think the manufacturer was only really making them, in order to get RISC-V better supported in the Linux kernel.
They have much faster RISC-V CPUs in their road map.
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Thanks for the benches and notes Jeff. I’m still waiting for mine to be shipped but looking forward to tinkering with it. Hopefully i won’t have to compile a custom kernal image…
Jebus that looks like it barely does any power management at all. I wonder if that is missing in the hardware or is just not implemented right in linux (jet maybe?)
Have you looked at how much battery drain it reports when unplugged? At least in the case of my amd fw13 it draws a lot more power from the wall than it draws from the battery when unplugged.
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Still waiting for my board to be shipped, but in the meantime, for anyone interested, these are some updates:
- The SOC does indeed have 2 chips/ 2 of the same dies. Means each CPU gets half the ram as per Geerling’s notes. They made a [DTX version now with the same chipset] (https://www.phoronix.com/news/ESWIN-EBC7702-Mini-DTX-RISC-V)
- Mainline kernel support coming in kernel 6.18(https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Eswin-EIC7700-Net)
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Just received mine today. Unfortunately the current images don’t have the latest patches and on my standalone board it only boots into Ubuntu desktop but then doesn’t accept any other command. @yuning_liang can I please ask that DC
- Update the Framework repository on your org with some information on the device, including info on the motherboard, usb outputs, etc? For example, based on my testing, HDMI output is only on the top right port?
- Update the OS images on your download server with the latest built distro images. I believe the current builds on these are from several months ago and there have been new patches from Eswin a few days ago
In addition, would be nice to have:
- The guides in markdown instead of pdf
- Firmware update (for example, the fan is at full speed until custom OS is loaded, power draw on off is almost one watt)
github has first guide that. soon will be more.