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  • dlcarrier12 days ago
    The article mentions a "RISC-V Milk-V processor" with many slow cores. Milk-V is a distributor that doesn't make any processors. My guess is that this line is referring to the Sophgo SG2042 on the Milk-V Pioneer, which is older hardware that has 64 cores.
    • ninth_ant8 days ago
      Yup it’s confirmed to be a milk-v pioneer on the link from the embedded video page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;box86.org&#x2F;2026&#x2F;01&#x2F;new-box64-v0-4-0-released&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;box86.org&#x2F;2026&#x2F;01&#x2F;new-box64-v0-4-0-released&#x2F;</a><p>Definitely not the latest and greatest RISC-V, interestingly a new Milk-V board was announced quite recently which will use the new spacemit K3 chip.
      • snvzz8 days ago
        &gt;interestingly a new Milk-V board was announced quite recently<p>Some details here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sipeed.com&#x2F;k3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sipeed.com&#x2F;k3</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;milkv.io&#x2F;jupiter2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;milkv.io&#x2F;jupiter2</a><p>Shipping April apparently.
      • brucehoult8 days ago
        Yes, the Jupiter 2.<p>Also K3 machines announced from Sipeed and from SpacemiT themselves.<p>And I got name-checked by the SpacemiT CEO in the live presentation lol.
        • ninth_ant7 days ago
          I don’t know your achievements in general but your contributions to the risc-v subreddit alone are quite substantial. A much-deserved shout out.
          • brucehoult7 days ago
            You are very kind.<p>No major projects in RISC-V, just little bits and pieces here and there e.g. some contributions to the ISA manual, a little bigger (but still minor) contributions to the V and B extensions. Published the first working &quot;check it out and build&quot; LLVM repo for RISC-V, based on merging some out of date patches from Alex. Preserved a gcc&#x2F;binutils toolchain for RVV draft 0.7.1 which for some reason the tag was removed from in the main riscv-gnu-toolchain repo (the commits still exist there, but no way to know what is a good point. I think a lot of people used that for C906&#x2F;C910 until XTHeadVector got merged into GCC 14 with different mnemonics (`th.` prefix on all the instructions). Some contributions to the Samsung port of DotNET to RISC-V.<p>Just idk as an independent person if I see something easy the big players are ignoring then I try to fill the gap. Quite often that comes down to spending a few hours developing some example code to post on Reddit or my github. But watch this space ... I&#x27;m thinking of maybe trying to do that full time with community sponsorship at a buck or five a month each (Github Sponsors, Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, OF [1] etc ..)<p>Would that work? I don&#x27;t know.<p>[1] I hear a lot of people already have credit cards set up there.
            • ninth_ant5 days ago
              I think you have some potential opportunities here either in doing something in the spaces of technical education or podcasting&#x2F;newsletter.<p>Could definitely imagine a weekly podcast where you cover the weeks risc-v developments and add some context from your experience and knowledge. Or a course targeted at getting new developers up to speed.<p>Either way the existing types of knowledge and work you do could work as marketing opportunities for those paid avenues.<p>Best of luck if you do