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Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ... by cbm-vic-20 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:29AM (#46668573)
I'm surprised we haven't seen more investment from Indian firms. India is really trying to raise their game in the tech economy beyond the services industry. You don't need the most cutting-edge chip fabrication equipment to manufacture these processors.
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Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ... by oofbey on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:50AM (#46669403)
Services industry is gonna be tough in the age of AI agents.
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Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ... by lazide on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:41AM (#46669266)
If by really trying you mean a bunch of PR stunts and diverted funds, sure.

Are you aware of any actual credible attempts?

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Re:Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board ... by rwmj on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:31PM (#46669924)
The Indian government was actually a very early adopter, they had one of the first RISC-V processors that wasn't based on the vanilla Rocket designs, starting back in like 2016 or so. Unfortunately they made some other weird decisions, like not supporting compressed instructions so the chip wasn't compatible with any mainstream Linux distros, and I don't think the project really went anywhere. Although looking at Wikipedia the project seems to still exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAKTI_(microprocessor)

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