The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3

This is a fascinating box–so much so that after almost three weeks playing with it, I amassed so much material that I nearly decided to split my review into two parts, but in the end I decided to condense it a bit and post a longer piece than usual, even if that means almost half of it is a fairly wide-ranging exploration of how to get AI workloads on it. The MilkV Jupiter 2 in its metal case Spoiler: We’re tantalizingly close to having usable non-GPU inference on SBCs, and surprisingly enough, RISC-V is more interesting than ARM right now. I’ve tested a lot of ARM boards over the past few years, but only a couple of RISC-V machines–and the MilkV Jupiter 2 is quite a substantial system: Sixteen cores (with a twist), a refreshingly roomy 32GB of RAM, a 10GbE SFP, Wi-Fi 6, a GPU with actual DRM nodes, all in a Pico ITX form factor. Disclaimer: my contacts at Radxa supplied me with a Jupiter 2 free of charge, and as usual, this article follows my review policy. On paper, this is the…