Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ...
by fweimer on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:29AM
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Is there an actual U.S. RISC-V CPU that achieves competitive performance? I think the performance leaders are currently based in China.
There's a difference between announcement, offering IP for licensing (so you still have to make your own CPUs), shipping CPUs, and having those CPUs in systems that can actually boot something.
Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ...
by sylware on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:51PM
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For instance, SiFive in the US, but last time I did check them, their RVA23 CPUs on their workstation boards did not have cache-line size vector instructions (only 128bits aka sse grade I think), RVA23 mandates the same "sweet spot" for a cache line size than on x86_64: 64bytes/512bits.
Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ...
by geerlingguy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:51AM
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Box64 already runs Steam (and a good number of games) on RISC-V.
Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ...
by sylware on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:39PM
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Yep... but RISC-V large and performant implementations won't access the latest silicon process for a good while... better to push for native support to help.
Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ...
by pantalaimon on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:44AM
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Box64 also runs on LoongArch
Everybody sane will want to move away from them, there is nothing chinese specific.
The most performant RISC-V implementations are from the US if I am not too mistaken.
Wonder if that hardware can handle an AMD 9070 XT (resizable bar). If so, we need the steam client to be recompiled for RISC-V and some games... if this RISC-V implementation is performant enough (I wish we would have trashed ELF before...)