[fweimer]

The Arace purchase link for the Jupiter 2 kit says it's “in stock“, but it's actually for a discount coupon. The actual system can only pre-ordered. The Sipeed web site does not say anything about shipping timelines, and the products are not offered in their AliExpress store. I think the Sipeed boards are in preorder, too.

Of course, neither of these are machines. And the average bystander probably isn't used to importing computer parts directly from China, either.

[brucehoult]

I have a machine in my hot little hands. It arrived today.

https://x.com/BruceHoult/status/2056911834737975635/photo/1

I've already posted on github my first project written on and for it today:

https://github.com/brucehoult/k3_ai

Sipeed have posted photos four days ago of the first batch of customer orders going out:

https://x.com/SipeedIO/status/2055549071931404291

> the average bystander probably isn't used to importing computer parts directly from China, either.

It won't take long for them to be available on amazon, just as D1 and JH7110 and K1 boards are now. e.g.

https://www.amazon.com/Orange-Pi-RV-Frequency-Development/dp...

[fweimer]

Interesting. Is this a full system and not just a board? This is still not quite clear to me.

Hopefully, one of these systems gets produced in such large quantities that there's some pressure to add mainline Linux support.

[ilidur]

Deep Computing have started taking orders for the final product and the Preorders are shipping within the next 6 weeks. They will be shipping from China I expect, but it's a proper shop front.

https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-risc-v-mainb...