It's worth noting that this was an April Fool's announcement, and the PineTab-V seems to be parody rather than a real product, unlike the Pinetab2 and Star64. Though considering one of their jokes last year—the PineBuds—turned into a real product, who knows, maybe we will be getting a RISC-V tablet after all.

I'm reminded of the modern AMD desktop and mobile processors, particularly Rembrandt, which has brought a lot of hardware onto the processor package—a thunderbolt controller, NVMe, a very very good GPU, I think audio, and possibly even an ethernet controller. The approach seems to have worked out quite well for them. It's interesting to see AMD and Intel adopting different traits from the ARM world—AMD has started dragging as much functionality as possible onto the processor package to allow the targeting of one very consistent platform, and Intel has adopted heterogenous cores (some performance optimized, some efficiency optimized) in an attempt to be competitive with power consumption and thermals.

I wonder how many PinePhone owners might actually consider this. It costs almost as much as the RK3399-based PinePhone Pro which curb stomps the Librem 5 spec-wise in everything but battery life for $400 instead of over $1200, and costs more than a PineBook Pro, though. Personally, I'm happy with the keyboard addon for my own PinePhone Pro that turns it into an adorable 6" laptop with 30Whr of battery.

Is OpenCL and Vulkan really not enough? The RX 680M is stupidly good for integrated graphics—it outperforms the MX450 you typically see dropped into laptops solely to be able to advertise CUDA support, and probably uses less power as well.

I don't do much AI work other than playing with things like waifu2x on occasion, but it's worth considering whether you can forego CUDA to have functional Linux drivers. While there's still a few kinks to be ironed out (I have a laptop with a 6800H) there's very functional Mesa drivers providing good performance with all APIs, and an experimental Rust OpenCL driver that supposedly outperforms AMD's own proprietary compute drivers.