It has PCIe slots for graphics, so of course no HDMI. This isn't a SoC-on-SBC type product like the RPi. The competitor here is a PC motherboard + CPU combination, not an RPi.

Yes, it will be far slower than a new PC, but this is still pretty damn cool.

To price compare you need to look at a 4+ core processor + modern motherboard + 8GB RAM + 32GB flash (EDIT: 32MB, so meh). I'm sure once you did that you'd find something half the price, but when you consider the volumes involved...

Minor correction: the linked website says 32MB flash, not 32GB. Unless you meant 32GB flash for the micro-SD slot which is presumably sold separately for the SiFive board as it is with the RPi.

Oops, yeah, thanks for catching.

It's inevitable that someone will make a RISC-V Pi one day

I dunno... I mean it's actually smart to not make this a single board machine with built-in GPU, since there isn't really a workable open GPU / display controller solution. So making it a PCIe host that can take any off the shelf GPU neatly solves this problem.

I have high hopes that sifive might be able to make something happen here.

IF RISC-V ever gets big enough for economy of scales to kickin.

PicoRio is aiming at the Pi price point, but its specs may be lower.

Gotta start somewhere and this is much more reasonable than the FPGA version @ $1K!

FPGA version was actually $3-4K. The previous $1K board was an ASIC produced in very small numbers.