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  alexrp
  Most people would be better off waiting for the multiple RVA23 boards that are supposed to come out this year, at least if they don't want to be stuck running custom vendor distros. "RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition.It's honestly a bit hard to understand why they bothered with this one. No hate for the Milk-V folks; I have 4 Jupiters sitting next to me running in Zig's CI. But hopefully they'll have something RVA23-compliant out soon (SpacemiT K3?).
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  Findecanor
  I've noticed that the sentence “Compliant with RVA23 excluding V extension” has apparently been a bit confusing to some reporters in the tech press lately.It means that the UR-DP1000 chip would have been RVA23-compliant if only it had supported the V (Vector) extension. The Vector extension is mandatory in the RVA23 profile.There are other chips out there even closer to being RVA23-compliant, that have V but not a couple of scalar extensions. The latter have been emulated in software using trap handlers, but there was a significant performance penalty. V is such a big extension, with many instructions and requiring more resources, that I don't think that it would be worth the effort.
• drob518
  The good: eight cores. The bad: it’s slow and still no V extension. On the bright side, it uses DDR4, so you might be able to find RAM for it. “Titan” feels like some wishful over marketing.
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  dwood_dev
  I'm surprised we have not seen more investment into RISC-V from Chinese firms. I would think they want to decouple from ARM and the west in general as a dependency. Maybe they view the coup of ARM China as having secured ARM for the time being and not as much pressure?Either way, it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5. I can go on AliExpress right now and buy a mini itx board with a Ryzen 9 7845HX for the same price.
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  easygenes
  As a point of comparison, the Radxa Orion O6 shipped a year ago as a 12 core ARMv9 board on same form factor and TDP, for $100 less, with 5x the single core performance (and including a competent iGPU, NPU and VPU). These are very much developer/tinkerer only boards as is.
• roughly
  These are still very early days for RISC-V, but I’m always happy to see things progress in this space. No, this isn’t a viable desktop for the average consumer, but if it makes the architecture more accessible for the types of weirdos who tend to pave the way for the rest of us, it’s good.
• justaboutanyone
  Where are the RVA23 boards that have been hinted at for so long?
• dev_l1x_be
  I just got a Milkv Mars and it is bit rough around the edges. Discord group helped me to get a Debian running on it but I would not say it was simple or easy to get it working.
• Sparkyte
  Considering you can get a more core dense package on x86 for that price it is better to wait.2.0ghz isn’t a whole lot of performance for RISC-V system.
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  fulafel
  Is it really this much slower than a Raspberry Pi 5? https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/23667112?baseli...tldr; 236 vs 666 single core score
• throwaway85825
  Until the risc v ecosystem receives upstreamed and maintained support it's going to be a hard sell vs x86 that 'just works'.
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  flykespice
  Really, I don't get why would anyone buy these priced RISC-V development boards over much cheaper ARM-based variants that are faster.What is the target audience for these development boards anyway?
• TheRealPomax
  But why are we still slapping on woefully tiny stock coolers that spin so fast your room sounds like an RC racing arena?
• fnord77
  Kinda pricey? You can get an entire M4 Mac Mini for $499
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  singinishi
  So slow.