RISC-V specialist Milk-V has introduced one other single-board laptop, the Milk-V Titan, this time constructed round what it claims is “essentially the most highly effective RISC-V core in mass manufacturing to this point” — packing eight of UltraRISC Expertise’s UR-CP100 cores within the type of the desktop-class UR-DP1000 chip.
“The Milk-V Titan, powered by the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 eight-core SoC [System-on-Chip] (as much as 2.0GHz), is a compact mini-ITX RISC-V board,” the corporate says of the newest entry to its rising RISC-V single-board laptop secure. “It helps as much as 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM, a PCIe Gen. 4 x16 slot for graphics/computing playing cards, and an M.2 NVMe SSD. That includes gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and ATX energy assist, [it] additionally assist Milk-V BMC [Board Management Controller] distant management, [and] it is excellent for high-performance RISC-V desktops and servers.”
Milk-V has unveiled one other desktop-class mini-iTX RISC-V single-board laptop, this time constructed round UltraRISC’s UR-DP1000: the Milk-V Titan. (📷: Milk-V)
As Milk-V says, the chip on the coronary heart of the board is the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 — residence to what the corporate claims to be “essentially the most highly effective RISC-V core in mass manufacturing to this point,” the UR-CP100. This 64-bit core implements the RV64GCBHX variant of the RISC-V instruction set structure. It makes use of a four-issue superscalar microarchitecture with 64kB of instruction, 64kB of knowledge, and 512kB of L2 cache per core plus 4MB of L3 and 16MB of LLC cache for every of the 2 quad-core clusters. The cores are specified to run at as much as 2.3GHz, although within the Titan Milk-V seems to be limiting them to their decrease base clock of 2GHz, with UltraRISC claiming a thermal design profile (TDP) of simply 30W.
The board helps as much as 64GB of DDR4 reminiscence with or with out error correcting code (ECC), decrease than the 128GB most of the UR-DP1000 itself, and features a connector for the Milk-V BMC — initially developed as a controller for the corporate’s cluster methods. There’s an M.2 connector exposing 4 lanes of PCI Categorical Gen. 4, designed for Non-Unstable Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage, plus a 16-lane slot for add-on boards together with community playing cards, graphics playing cards, and machine studying accelerators. There is a single gigabit Ethernet port, 4 5Gb/s USB 3.0 ports, and a header for a single USB 2.0 port on a case’s entrance panel.
With eight desktop-class cores, there isn’t any shock to see that energetic cooling is a requirement — and the Titan comes full with a compact heatsink-and-fan meeting, connecting to a pulse-width modulation (PWM) header on the board for pace management. The board is designed across the mini-ITX type issue, suitable with a variety of PC instances — full with a front-panel connector for an influence change, reset change, and disk exercise LED and assist for a 24-pin ATX energy connector instead of a 12–19VDC energy jack on the rear. Lastly, there is a USB Sort-C connector offering entry to a debug serial port.
With a 30W TDP, the UR-DP1000 will want energetic cooling — so Milk-V’s bundling a PWM-controlled heatsink and fan meeting. (📷: Milk-V)
On the software program facet, Milk-V guarantees the flexibility to put in a variety of working methods together with Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora Remix, Circle Linux, and real-time working methods together with FreeRTOS and Zephyr. Higher nonetheless, it has pledged to upstream patches for board assist to mainline Linux by the top of subsequent 12 months — although it stays to be seen whether or not it could ship on that promise. There’s additionally the query of long-term assist in Ubuntu, with the RVA22 profile of the UltraRISC chip falling wanting Canonical’s necessary RVA23 requirement for Ubuntu 25.10 onwards.
Milk-V is taking pre-orders for the board through Arace, which is taking $5 deposits redeemable for a $50 low cost off a yet-to-be-announced launch worth. Extra data is out there on the Milk-V web site — however the firm has but to indicate off any pictures of bodily {hardware}, counting on renders to get its message throughout.
