[brucehoult]

> but the motherboard to use it on appears to be ~£1200

Not sure what you're looking at as you didn't give a link, but perhaps you're confusing Pioneer and Oasis?

The 64 core Pioneer prebuilt with case, power supply, SSD, video card, 128 GB RAM for $2500 is quite reasonably priced against commercially built 16 core x86 machines, if your workload can keep 64 cores busy. Each core is around 1/4 the speed of current x86, but there are four times as many.

Don't forget 64 core x86 is $5000 just for the chip.

[alias_neo]

I clicked through the GP's second link and the pre-order link which took me here: https://arace.tech/products/pre-order-milk-v-oasis-16-core-r...

This appears to be the (voucher for the) "chip" but I don't see any board to mount it on other than the Pioneer.

Again, I admit I know nothing about the RISC-V ecosystem so apologies, I'm just curious.

[snvzz]

To clarify, Milk-V Oasis is the board, not the chip.

The chip is SG2380, and it comes soldered onto the board.

Thus the preorder is for the board, which includes the chip.

This is a Mini-ITX board, and you're meant to provide RAM, storage, power supply, case and whatever else needed.