#open_source_hardware

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It supports Android 12 and Debian 10 The shelf of single board computers has arrived: the Banana Pi BPI-M7 based on the Rockchip RK3588 SoC is presented. The SoC features a quad-core 2.4 GHz Arm Cortex-A76 and four 1.8 GHz Arm Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Mali-G610 MP4 GPU, and a 6 TOPS Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for acceleration. AI tasks. [caption id="attachment_82595" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Banana Pi BPI-M7[/caption] Banana Pi BPI-M7 will go on sale in versions with 8, 16 and even 32 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and the total amount of eMMC flash memory can be 64 or 128 GB. Also on the board measuring 92 × 62 mm there is an M.2 slot connected to the PCIe 3.0 x4 bus. Banana Pi BPI-M7 introduced, one of the most powerful single board computers [caption id="attachment_82596" align="aligncenter" width="496"] Banana Pi BPI-M7[/caption] Banana Pi BPI-M7 is equipped with Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6 adapters, as well as a pair of 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports. HDMI and USB-C are used to connect monitors, and both support image output at 8K resolution, but the frame rate is different - 60 and 30 fps, respectively. The computer is compatible with Android 12 and Debian 10 OS. Unfortunately, the cost has not yet been announced.

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There are few details yet It looks like the new generation of smartwatches with Wear OS will become much more autonomous. Qualcomm announced that it is jointly developing the Snapdragon Wear platform based on the RISC-V architecture with Google. [caption id="attachment_71231" align="aligncenter" width="600"] RISC-V[/caption] Qualcomm is moving from Arm to RISC-V. The press release says that the new platform will be aimed generally at devices in the wearable electronics segment with Wear OS, but for now, this is only smartwatches. Perhaps with the release of such a platform the range of devices will expand. Qualcomm says the development will help pave the way for more products in the ecosystem that can take advantage of dedicated processors with low power consumption and high performance. It is not yet clear when the first such SoC will appear, but Qualcomm promises to talk about it later.