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Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory

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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.

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.

>interestingly a new Milk-V board was announced quite recently

Some details here:

https://sipeed.com/k3

https://milkv.io/jupiter2

Shipping April apparently.

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.

I don’t know your achievements in general but your contributions to the risc-v subreddit alone are quite substantial. A much-deserved shout out.

You are very kind.

No major projects in RISC-V, just little bits and pieces here and there e.g. some contributions to the ISA manual, a little bigger (but still minor) contributions to the V and B extensions. Published the first working "check it out and build" LLVM repo for RISC-V, based on merging some out of date patches from Alex. Preserved a gcc/binutils toolchain for RVV draft 0.7.1 which for some reason the tag was removed from in the main riscv-gnu-toolchain repo (the commits still exist there, but no way to know what is a good point. I think a lot of people used that for C906/C910 until XTHeadVector got merged into GCC 14 with different mnemonics (`th.` prefix on all the instructions). Some contributions to the Samsung port of DotNET to RISC-V.

Just idk as an independent person if I see something easy the big players are ignoring then I try to fill the gap. Quite often that comes down to spending a few hours developing some example code to post on Reddit or my github. But watch this space ... I'm thinking of maybe trying to do that full time with community sponsorship at a buck or five a month each (Github Sponsors, Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, OF [1] etc ..)

Would that work? I don't know.

[1] I hear a lot of people already have credit cards set up there.

I think you have some potential opportunities here either in doing something in the spaces of technical education or podcasting/newsletter.

Could definitely imagine a weekly podcast where you cover the weeks risc-v developments and add some context from your experience and knowledge. Or a course targeted at getting new developers up to speed.

Either way the existing types of knowledge and work you do could work as marketing opportunities for those paid avenues.

Best of luck if you do

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