I’m very aware that most developers in Egypt, West Africa and other parts of the world don’t have such easy access to the latest Chinese & American tech as we do around Australia, so although the local government often choose to forego those advantages by not promoting innovation on new platforms I’m hoping to maximise those advantages by pre-ordering what I can when I can.
The Milk-V Titan should be quite a beast compared to earlier boards, with beefed up performance that will help drive all aspects of my software development, but the real feature I’m looking out for (and which there has been a bit of speculation about whether it will ship) is the virtualisation extensions. So at time of writing it looks like they are shipping with the virtualisation features fully working, and that should be a bit of a game changer for OS developers as it means we should have a fully stable stack where VMs will work quickly & reliably. On the other hand some features like this might still be a bit experimental so I’m trying not to rely on it.
My main development machine at the moment (not the main test board) is a top-specced Milk-V Jupiter and it’s running great so I’m very confident with that manufacturer and I’ve been watching for this new board since getting ahold of the Jupiter model. SpacemiT & Ky chips have been giving me pretty flawless performance so far (though a little slow for Firefox) so I’m sure I’ll be impressed by anything a bit faster than that – although the SpacemiT range is what I’d recommend for current projects and will probably remain a main target.
Some information about the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 chip and the Milk-V Titan board can be found here:
https://ultrarisc.github.io/ultrarisc-devblog/2025/06/18/dp1000-spec/
(UPDATE) It looks like someone working on Linux has already found a hardware bug in this range of chips:
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