2026-02-05 Devboards Meeting Minutes

[Greg Sterling]

Folks,

Thanks for another great meeting!

Here are the minutes from the meeting.

Board Updates (Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, SpacemIT, Milk-V)

·       https://www.techpowerup.com/345977/tenstorrent-cuts-20-cores-from-already-shipping-blackhole-p150-cards

·       SpacemiT K3 uarch design paper https://forum.spacemit.com/uploads/short-url/60aJ8cYNmrFWqHn4ddwwSzMLjlY.pdf

·       Milk-V Titan - A $329 octa-core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard with a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot

o   DDR4 memory

o   Should be shipping in March

·       https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1qq5wxg/spacemit_release_two_k3_boards/

·       K3 Architecture - link

·       Arace Links for K3 boards - link

·       RVA23 Watch List

o   Milk-V Jupiter 2 - link ($50 off through pre-order)

o   Sipeed - link

o   Banana Pi ??? - Hints that there is something is coming Also

o   DC Mainboard-iii - Link

o   https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1qljlu3/tentorrent_ascalonx_cpu_atlantis_devboard/

·       https://www.akeana.com/akeana-tapes-out-highest-performance-rva23-alpine-test-chip/

What’s cool?:

·       https://felix86.com/felix86-26-02/ Vulkan X11 Thunking support

·       https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2013935355028709880 Hand written FFmpeg code up to 14x faster

·       https://video.fosdem.org/2026/h2214/

·       Andes Launches RISC-V Now - Global Conference Series focussed on RISC-V https://www.andestech.com/en/2026/02/04/andes-technology-launches-risc-v-now-a-global-conference-series-focused-on-commercial-production-scale-risc-v/

·       Work to get mainline kernels working with inflight patches with various boardshttps://codeberg.org/edolnx/riscv-sbc-kernels