Pine64 starts pre-sale PineTab-V this week with RISC-V-soc and PineTab 2

Pine64 will start pre-sales 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, with the different Socs being 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 singleboard 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 that the PineTab-V is primarily intended as an experimental product that serves 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.

Furthermore, the tablets 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 supplies 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 cover.

Source: Pine64