The chip provider is a subsiduary of Bitmain and it seems that MilkV have quite close ties with them, time will tell if this provides for long term support or n

The chip provider is a subsiduary of Bitmain and it seems that MilkV have quite close ties with them, time will tell if this provides for long term support or not. I'm not sure the statement about "Support things long term neither software nor hardware wise" (maybe I'm taking this statement out of context, but it seemed directly linked to the firm being based in China...) is entirely fair - some examples being, Tencent, Huawei, Ali(cloud), ZTE, TP-Link, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Tuya, etc and then more on the maker side of things companies like Creality and of course Espressif.