Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory
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4 days ago
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dlcarrier
4 days ago
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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.
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ninth_ant
4 hours ago
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Yup it’s confirmed to be a milk-v pioneer on the link from the embedded video page https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/

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.

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brucehoult
1 hour ago
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Yes, the Jupiter 2.

Also K3 machines announced from Sipeed and from SpacemiT themselves.

And I got name-checked by the SpacemiT CEO in the live presentation lol.

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snvzz
1 hour ago
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>interestingly a new Milk-V board was announced quite recently

Some details here:

https://sipeed.com/k3

https://milkv.io/jupiter2

Shipping April apparently.

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