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.
