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This 2 inch board is a dual-port Ethernet router with a RISC-V processor

MangoPi has introduced several tiny single-board computers with RISC-V processors over the past year. Now the company is showing off an upcoming model that has a feature that helps set it apart: two Gigabit Ethernet ports. The company is positioning the upcoming board as a “tiny RISC-V router.” It measures just 5 x 5cm (about […]

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Orange Pi Zero 3 is a cheap, tiny single-board PC with up to 4GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and Allwinner H618

The Orange Pi Zero 3 is a single-board computer that measures 55 x 50mm (2.2″ x 2″), but which is a versatile little device capable of running a range of operating systems including Android 12, Debian 12, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. At first glance, the little computer board looks a lot like the three-year-old Orange […]

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Libre Computer’s Cottonwood single-board PCs promise up to 2X the performance of a Raspberry Pi 4

Libre Computer has been selling Raspberry Pi-like single-board computers for six years… but it’s been five years since the company has introduced a new device. That’s set to change soon. The company says its first new boards in five years are on the way. The upcoming Libre Computer Sweet Potato appears to be a modest update […]

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Banana Pi BPI-R4 router board supports WiFi 7 and has 6 Ethernet ports (including two 10 GbE)

The maker of the Banana Pi line of single-board computers has unveiled a new Banana Pi BPI-R4 model that’s designed to be used as a router, firewall, file server, or for other networking tasks. Powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 processor and 4GB of DDR4 memory, the board features up to two 10 GbE Ethernet […]

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UNIHIKER is an $80 single-board PC with a 2.8 inch touchscreen display and quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 processor

DFRobot’s new UNIHIKER is a single-board computer that could be used for a wide variety of hardware and software prototyping projects. It’s basically a small computer with an ARM-based processor, a Debian-based GNU/Linux operating system pre-installed, support for WiFi and Bluetooth, and a bunch of sensors. It also comes with a 2.8 inch touchscreen display. […]

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Up Squared i12 is a 3.5 inch board with up to a Core i7-1270PE processor

The UP Squared i12 is a compact computer board that’s not much larger than a Raspberry Pi Model B. But instead of a low-power ARM-based processor, the UP Squared i12 supports up to a 28-watt Intel Alder Lake-P processor. It’s the latest in a line of UP boards from Asus subsidiary AAEON, and it’s a […]

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Lilbits: 1st-gen Chromecast reaches end of life, Surface Pro X camera bug… surfaces, and mini-laptop and single-board PC updates

The thing about buying stuff from AliExpress is that you can’t always trust the product descriptions. When I wrote about a $350 mini-laptop with an 8 inch display and an Intel N100 processor last week, I took the description at face value. But our source for the original story now tells us that the little […]

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Milk-V Mars is a Raspberry Pi-sized PC with a quad-core RISC-V processor

The Milk-V Mars is a credit card-sized single-board computer that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi. But instead of an ARM-based processor, this little PC sports a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor based on RISC-V architecture. It’s the latest in a line of RISC-V systems from Milk-V, and the company has been teasing the […]

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HackBoard 2 is finally shipping (single-board PC with Intel Gemini Lake processor)

The HackBoard 2 is a single-board computer with an Intel processor, up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of eMMC storage, an M.2 slot for additional storage, and support for Windows, Linux, and other operating systems. The folks behind the board launched a crowdfunding campaign in late 2020 with the goal of shipping units in […]

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Lilbits: Ubuntu on the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board PC, mini PCs with Ryzen 7040HS, and Google’s new Find My Network

Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer [Canonical] Canonical brings support for Ubuntu 23.04 to the StarFive VisionFive 2, a single-board PC with a 1.5 GHz quad-core JH7110 RISC-V processor with SiFive U74 CPU cores and Imagination BXE-4-32 MC1 graphics. […]