SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop
Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a price
UBUNTU SUMMIT SpacemiT is demonstrating its impressive new K3 RISC-V SoC, a fairly hefty 16-core device – with a moderately hefty price.
One of the few hardware vendors exhibiting at the recent Ubuntu Summit was SpacemiT. (The site is available in both Chinese and English – click the globe symbol at top right to switch between them.)
The company’s product page for the Key Stone K3 chip has specs that look powerful: 16 CPU cores, divided between eight of SpacemiT’s own X100 cores, running at up to 2.4 GHz, and eight A100 “AI cores”. The full product brief [PDF] has more.
The RISC-V CPU cores meet the RVA23 spec, which is significant. When Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” came out in October last year, we noted that the RISC-V variant needed RVA23 – specifically, RVA23S64[PDF]. The RISC-V assocation called...
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