RISC-V Innovations with Ubuntu Integration

Aug 2025

Joey Zeng

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Marketing Specialist

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Yuning Liang

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Founder

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Who are we and What we do

RISC-V Premium Product Pioneer Focusing on

• Consumer Electronics
• Modern Personal Computing Devices
• And Some RISC-V Run & Fun Gadgets

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Why RISC-V

Past, Present and Future Openness

• x86 dominates the PC world
• Intel, and AMD
• From US and driven by US
• Geopolitical, policy restrictions

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• What about ARM?
• Dominates the Mobile world
• From Europe and driven by the global

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• Why RISC-V
• Open, belong to Humanity
• From US, move to Europe

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RISC-V Journey

Journey Hard Enough

• x86 on PC/Server from 80s, e.g. Intel/AMD
• Arm on Mobile from 2010s, e.g. Qualcomm/MTK
• RISC-V on What? AI? How? From 2020s?

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Making RISC-V a Successful Reality

• Keep introducing mass-produced products to the market.

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• Proactively involve existing key partners, e.g. IP/SoC/OSes

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• Inspire and motivate ecosystem potential new members

Breaking the dead locked cycle

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Partnering Challenges

Bringing together different partners

• In different stages
• Via iterative cycle

• Different goals and priorities, misalignment in objectives and timelines
• Technical compatibility and fragmentation across software and hardware (from IP to SoC)
• Resource-intensive integration

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DeepComputing x Canonical �@ RISC-V Summit EU 2024

DeepComputing and Canonical

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DC-ROMA Laptops/Pad

Both DC-ROMA Laptop I/II and Pad II

One of the first RISC-V platforms to gain such deep integration.

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Why Ubuntu Integration Important?

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• One of the most widely used Linux distributions
• provides ready-to-use packages, libraries, and tools
• stable, optimized, and globally trusted platform

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DeepComputing x Framework

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• We make fixable and upgradable products�
• “Design for personalization”�
• Open, customizable matches with RISC-V

Store Page

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DeepComputing x Partners

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• Partners from IP/SoC/OS�
• Interactive circle

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• Promote RISC-V Ecosystem

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Kernel Upstreaming

Current Status:

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• Merge Ubuntu 24.04 with one Kernel, enormous hard work
• OS distribution not able to build official images
• Latest kernel release not support any SoC hardware
• Neither in a good quality
• Nor In a good timing
• SoC manufacturer is NOT focused kernel upstreaming

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RISC-V Kernel Upstreaming Goals and Partners

2025 Goals:

Latest Kernel/OS latest released can be built and run on all DeepComputing Products

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Partners:

• Framework Engineers, e.g., Alex/Daniel, etc.
• Linux Kernel Maintainers, e.g., Greg KH
• SoC Partner Engineers, e.g., StarFive/Spacemit, etc.
• OS Partner Engineers, e.g., Ubuntu Emil, etc.
• Upstream Specialist Partners, e.g., RISCStar, etc.

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Surge of AI, DeepSeek vs ChatGPT

Where we are now:

• Lower Compute Cost
• Faster Inferencing and Training

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What we can do on Local Device

• Single Inferencing for Distill Models
• Connect multi Local Device Inferencing and Post Train Over Full-Blood Models

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AI PC For RISC-V

2024 Start Partnering Linux OS

• Linux Kernel Fellow
• Ubuntu Official Support
• 25.10 for < RVA23
• 26.04 for > RVA23

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DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC

• Equipped with ESWIN 7702X SoC with SiFive P550 CPU Cores
• Running Ubuntu desktop
• Run DeepSeek-7B
• More AI Applications coming out

Ecosystem Cooperation

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