Milk-V Pioneer (MicroATX, 64 cores) now accepting orders

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/06/30/64-core-risc-v-motherboard-and-workstation-enables-native-risc-v-development/

$1199 for the board with chip+heatsink, or $1999 for a complete assembled system. Delivery by Christmas 2023.

I don't know, it's great to see the form factor, but I don't think twice the price of the HiFive Unmatched for 64 T-Head C920 cores (about RaspBi 3B+ level with RVV 0.71 draft extension) glued together is worth it.

I'll keep watching for Horse Creek and whatever Ventana Micro Systems are doing.

What do you all think?

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maquefel@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What's the strange comparison with RaspBi 3B+?

DDR4 vs LPDDR2 ? PCIe 3.0 vs none ? 2x 2.5GbE RJ45 ports vs Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0 ? 64 cores vs 4 ?

Not mentioning the 64MB L3 Cache.

Definitely worth it for those who wanna test heavily RISC-V SMP and not worth for GPIO blinking.

TristanFi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Sorry 🤷‍♂️ just giving an idea of the power of that particular core (maybe I should have used the SoC name and not the SBC name)