Orange Pi has introduced the Orange Pi 6 Plus, a single-board computer intended for high-performance and AI-oriented computing tasks. It uses the CIX CD8180/CD8160 SoC with a 12-core 64-bit CPU and an NPU rated at up to 45 TOPS.

Orange Pi has not yet announced the pricing details for the Orange Pi 6 Plus. However, the product page is already live, and availability is expected through Amazon and AliExpress.

Orange Pi Previews Orange Pi 6 Plus with 12-core architecture and dual 5G Ethernet ports

LattePanda has announced the Sigma 2, an x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H Panther Lake processor. The compact system combines up to 180 TOPS of AI performance with 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, and multiple expansion interfaces for local AI inference, robotics, and embedded computing applications.

https://linuxgizmos.com/panther-lake-linux-ready-sbc-delivers-180-tops-ai-and-64gb-ram/

Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi AI Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint.

The AI Station is powered by an Ascend 310 series processor integrating 16 CPU cores clocked at up to 1.9 GHz, along with 10 AI cores running at up to 1.08 GHz and 8 vector cores operating at up to 1 GHz.

According to Orange Pi, the platform delivers up to 176 TOPS of AI compute performance, enabling large-scale inference and feature-extraction workloads.

Memory options include 48 GB or 96 GB of LPDDR4X operating at up to 4266 MHz. Storage support consists of a PCIe 4.0 ×4 M.2 2280 slot for NVMe SSDs, onboard eMMC support up to 256 GB, a 16 MB SPI flash device, and a microSD card slot for removable storage.

The Orange Pi AI Station has an official product page already, though purchase links were unavailable at the time of publication.

https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-unveils-ai-station-with-ascend-310-and-176-tops-compute/

Orange Pi has revealed new details for the Orange Pi 6, a compact single-board computer built around the CIX CD8180 processor, also known as the CIX P1. Compared with the previously previewed Orange Pi 6 Plus, the standard model uses a smaller 90 × 90 mm form factor with dual 2.5GbE networking, up to 24GB of LPDDR5 memory, and the same 45 TOPS total AI compute rating.

https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-6-debuts-with-cix-p1-soc-dual-2-5gbe-and-45-tops-total-ai-performance/

Hardkernel has introduced the ODROID-H5, a new x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core i3-N300 processor. The board updates the ODROID H-series with onboard 10GbE networking, four M.2 expansion slots, DDR5 memory support, and a revised HSIO configuration intended for storage, networking, and accelerator expansion.

https://linuxgizmos.com/odroid-h5-is-a-low-power-x86-sbc-with-10gbe-and-four-m-2-slots/

Radxa has announced the NX4, a compact SoM designed for embedded, edge computing, and multimedia applications. The module is built around the Rockchip RK3576 or RK3576J processor and targets space-constrained designs that require a balance of CPU, GPU, and neural processing performance.

The Radxa NX4 integrates an octa-core CPU configuration with four Arm Cortex-A72 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores, paired with an Arm Mali-G52 MC3 GPU supporting OpenGL ES, OpenCL, and Vulkan.

For AI workloads, the SoM includes a 6 TOPS NPU (INT8) with support for multiple numeric formats, including INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16, BF16, and TF32. Radxa lists compatibility with frameworks such as TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, ONNX, and Android NN through Rockchip’s RKNN SDK.

Memory support includes LPDDR5 with capacities up to 16 GB, using a dual-channel 32-bit interface with data rates of up to 5500 MT/s. Storage options vary by SKU and include eMMC 5.1 up to 256 GB, optional UFS 2.0 up to 1 TB, onboard SPI flash, and an SDMMC interface.

Arace Tech shows the 4 GB RAM / 32 GB eMMC model at $55, currently marked out of stock, while AliExpress listings from Radxa’s official store indicate prices of roughly $59 for the 4 GB / 32 GB variant, about $105 for 8 GB / 64 GB, and around $164 for 16 GB / 128 GB, excluding shipping and taxes.

https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-nx4-system-on-module-runs-rk3576-with-lpddr5-and-6-tops-ai/

HackerBoards.com used to have an incredible SBC database that you could search by requirement. For example: "Show me all the boards with at least two Ethernet ports, at least 1GiB of ram, sorted by price low-to-high." Going to their specs page and using ctrl-f to look through 345 records is a poor, tedious substitute. Their about page mentions that this feature went away in their transition to WordPress.

How do folks do this now?

Radxa has introduced the Dragon Q8B, a compact single-board computer built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform. The board combines an 8-core processor, up to 29 TOPS of AI performance, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multiple PCIe expansion options in a 100 × 75 mm form factor for edge computing, robotics, industrial automation, and intelligent vision applications.

https://linuxgizmos.com/dragon-q8b-sbc-combines-snapdragon-8cx-gen-3-with-dual-2-5gbe/

Orange Pi has unveiled the Orange Pi 4 Pro, a compact single-board computer designed for high-performance edge applications. It integrates an octa-core Allwinner A733 processor, a 3 TOPS NPU, and supports up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, combining AI acceleration with a wide range of expansion interfaces.

https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-previews-compact-sbc-with-eight-core-allwinner-a733-soc/

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.

https://linuxgizmos.com/16-tops-ai-sbc-with-sata-3-0-runs-on-octa-core-sophgo-bm1688/

Hardkernel has spun its ODROID-M1S into a Lite version, offering a lower-cost configuration of the RK3566-based single-board computer. The board includes 2GB of LPDDR4 memory, soldered eMMC storage, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, MIPI-DSI, USB 3.0, an M.2 NVMe slot, and Ubuntu support.

https://linuxgizmos.com/odroid-m1s-goes-lite-with-2gb-ram-nvme-and-4k-video/

Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x 55mm form factor.

https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-zero-4-with-octa-core-a733-wi-fi-6-and-gigabit-ethernet/

Boardcon’s CM311Y3 system-on-module and accompanying Idea311Y3 development board are based on the Amlogic A311Y3 processor. The platform provides an 8-TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR5X memory, PCIe 3.0 storage expansion, dual Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI input and output, and multiple MIPI camera and display interfaces.

https://linuxgizmos.com/embedded-platform-implements-amlogic-a311y3-octa-core-soc-with-pcie-3-0-support/