Canonical has announced another new entry in its growing list of RISC-V platforms for which an official Ubuntu Linux image is available, launching an image for Microchip’s new PIC64GX family of 64-bit RISC-V processors.
“In an exciting development for the community of open source and edge computing, Canonical has partnered with Microchip to bring Ubuntu to PIC64GX RISC-V microprocessors (MPUs),” Canonical confirmed in an announcement this week. “Canonical and Microchip have jointly collaborated to bring Ubuntu to Microchip’s PIC64GX RISC-V MPU and the Curiosity Evaluation Kit.”