Milk-V introduces various Raspberry Pi-style RISC-V-based boards

Milk-V SBC RISC-V, plates

The Chinese company Milk-V has submitted as many as three RISC-V based boards. These are the Milk-V Duo, Milk-V Quad Core and the Milk-V Pioneer. The first two want to be an alternative to the famous SBC Raspberry Pi, while the last one is a motherboard taking the micro ATX format. Furthermore, in the latter case, Milk-V is also committed to a fully functional tower based on this motherboard.

Raspberry Pi is the queen in the sector of single board computers (SBC). However, the market wants to offer more alternatives and, above all, based on RISC-V -an open source ISA-. China is one of the markets that is paying the most attention to this architecture. And that's where Startup Milk-V came from.

Recently, Google announced its public support for this architecture, meaning that in the future it would leave ARM aside. And more after the semiconductor problems that occurred between the United States and China. But let's focus on Milk-V products:

Milk-V Duo, the most modest -and affordable- board that wants to compete against the Raspberry Pi Pico

Milk-V Duo

This modest development board will have a Dual Core RISC-V processor at 1 GHz frequency, 64 MB of RAM, supports Linux and RTOS, in addition to being able to be included in an optional Ethernet connection module. No Bluetooth or WiFi connection is noted anywhere, although it is possible that modules appear. Its price is 9 dollars and it is already on sale in China, although it will also be available shortly for various markets through one of the most famous online sales platforms in the world.

Milk-V Quad Core – the model that developers expect

Milk-V Quad Core

Although there is not much information about this model, Milk-V has announced through its account Twitter that shortly it will have in its catalog a model based on the processor StarFive JH7110 (1,5 GHz frequency) and 600 MHz GPU. There will be two possibilities: 4 or 8 GB RAM. Meanwhile, in terms of connections, this Milk-V Quad Core It will have 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a USB-C port to power the equipment, an HDMI output, a 3,5 mm audio jack, as well as an M.2 connection - nothing about the possibility of using cards micro SD-. It has not come to light of its possible price, but It is expected to be between 60 and 80 dollars.

Milk-V Pioneer and Pioneer Box – the star of the catalog

Milk-V Pioneer Box

Finally, we will have the Milk-V Pioneer, a motherboard based on the micro ATX format with a 64 Core 2 GHz processor, supports up to 128 GB of RAM memory, has different SATA connections, several USB 3.0 and 2.0 connections, MicroSD card slot, etc.

Although perhaps the most interesting thing about this board from Milk-V is the tower that will sell with everything assembled, in which we can find the motherboard together with an AMD R5 230 graphics card with HDMI, VGA and DVI outputs. An internal storage of 1 TB in SSD format and a RAM memory that can reach up to 128 GB will also be integrated. The price of this equipment has not been disclosed either. yes, it will be functional with various Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Deepin and Arch.

Where to buy Milk-V equipment

Sale of Milk-V plates

The only one of all the new team of the Asian Milk-V which has a confirmed price of 9 dollars; the other teams have nothing confirmed. Of course, the company has commented that it will have two sales routes: one for the Chinese domestic market and another route -quite well known- will be the one that contributes its output to the world market. And it is that users who are interested in these teams can do so through AliExpress.

Further information: Milk-V


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