the question was not if milkv can replace the SG2380 on the oasis, but rather if they could work on a different device with the same class of performance
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If you look at the history of Milk-v hardware it has been find a good SoC, and design a board around it.
So the question is which company about 2 years ago started to make a new SoC with good performance. Becase it typically takes 2 years and a million to go from the idea of a new SoC to holding a fully working silicon device in your hand.
I suspect there are many on the way, but until they land, we will not see an appropriate Milk-v board take off.
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Hello, I recently learned about this SoC and board. For $120 it seems like very good value. It being suitable for desktop usage is nice since I’m trying to switch away from x86 (and ARM).
I’m also glad it supports (inline) ECC, it’s a very underrated feature.
I echo the request for more news regarding availability.
A few questions:
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From what I find the AXT-16-512 is a capable GPU but driver support is poor. Will there be a Linux distro that supports the GPU?
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The NPU looks interesting, though I have no experience with such a thing. In lieu of experimenting with this board, which (cheap) board would be good to learn how it works?
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Which PSU should I get for this board (how many watts)?
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Imagination GPUs at time of writing require custom drivers from the board vendor, meaning normal distro isos won’,t support it and you’ll need an installer that MilkV has blessed to get it running. I vaguely remember something about them upstreaming eventually, but don’t bank on that.
Dunno anything about the NPU personally.
I think I have a 650W ATX power supply for my Jupiter, but it doesn’t pull anything aside from the 24-pin. Board pinout doesn’t list an additional ATX CPU header, so if you’re just powering the board you’ll probably need like a 90-100W unit at minimum, and most of that is for overhead for the PCIE lanes. ATX supplies under 500W that don’t look like ewaste are damn hard to find though.
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It seems more and more likely that this product will never come out. Sophgo’s going to get banned in the US. It won’t be manufactured at TSMC.
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I live in germany, where Sophgo isn’t banned…so, on a pure technicality, I could still buy it. But what would the ban have to do with manufacturing at TSMC?
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Apparently TSMC has suspended orders for SOPHGO since October because of US sanctions.
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TSMC manufactures chips for very important US companies (Apple). It will comply with US sanctions and won’t manufacture chips for Sophgo, like it does already for Huawei.
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