SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX Chassis Kit Review – Part 1: Unboxing, teardown, and first boot

SpacemiT has sent me a K3 Pico-ITX Chassis Kit for review. It's based on the K3 Pico-ITX motherboard with the SpacemiT K3 16-core RISC-V Edge AI processor housed in a compatible chassis. I'll start the review with an unboxing, a teardown, and a first boot to the pre-installed Bianbu OS. In the second part of the review, I'll perform feature testing and run several benchmarks (see early K3 benchmarks for reference) to evaluate the status of the software and performance of the system. SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX Chassis Kit unboxing I received a kit in a retail package reading "RISC-V AI CPI K3 RVA23 Profile Chip" and a UGREEN USB-C dock with a few USB-A ports, HDMI output, and 100W USB PD support. The dock will make perfect sense once we connect the system for our first boot. I was initially expecting a Pico-ITX SBC, so I was a little surprised

Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX - Lemmy

One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 [https://www.spacemit.com/products/keystone/k3] that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 [https://docs.riscv.org/reference/rva23/rva23-profiles.html] compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering. The SpacemiT K3 features eight X100 RISC-V cores as well as eight ultra-wide parallel AI computing A100 cores. The X100 cores clock up to 2.4GHz and are RVA23 profile compliant and largely associated as delivering similar performance to the Arm Cortex-A76 cores. The A100 AI cores support INT4 / INT8 / FP8 / FP16 / BF16 and rated for around 60 TOPS API performance. The A100 cores are also among the few RISC-V cores so far available that support RVV 1.0 vector processing. The SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX is an interesting little board that pairs the K3 SoC with 10Gb networking, UFS storage, dual M.2 expansion slots, USB Type-C with power delivery and 4K DisplayPort output, and dual channel LPDDR5-6400 memory with 16GB and 32GB configurations offered.

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Firefly CSC2-N48SPK3 – A 2880 TOPS RISC-V AI server with 48 SpacemiT K3 Nodes, 48 NVMe SSDs

After SpacemiT officially launched the K3 Pico-ITX SBC, and the K3 chip entered volume production, an Edge AI mini PC, and a laptop motherboard (for Framework 13) have been released. To add to the list, Firefly has recently launched the CSC2-N48SPK3, a massive 2U rack-mounted server based on multiple SpacemiT K3 SoCs designed to bring RISC-V computing power to enterprise racks. While consumer devices and modular laptops are great for developers, large-scale server-side AI workloads require more powerful hardware. The CSC2-N48SPK3 addresses this with up to 48 SpacemiT K3 RISC-V compute nodes, each with an octa-core X100 SoC delivering up to 60 TOPS (Sparse) AI performance, up to 32GB LPDDR5 RAM, 128 GB UFS storage, and an optional NVMe SSD. To manage all of these nodes, Firefly relies on a Rockchip RK3588 octa-core Arm processor as the central control node. Firefly CSC2-N48SPK3 specifications: Server Form Factor – 2U rack-mounted 48 Node high-density

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