Orange Pi Previews Orange Pi 6 Plus with 12-core architecture and dual 5G Ethernet ports - LinuxGizmos.com
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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. The SoC includes a 12-core architecture paired with an integrated graphics processor supporting hardware-accelerated ray tracing and 8K video decoding. While…
  • unexpected@forum.guncadindex.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Sounds pretty cool.

    I’ve been keeping an eye on these for a while now. I eventually intend on getting a 20" touch screen and connecting an SBC or nuc to the back to make a cool little media playing, web and pdf viewing machine for use inside of my shop. So basically… a “shop computer”. I was eyeing the Orange Pi 5’s but I recall an amazon comment noting that distro support was limited. With that in mind, I am leaning more towards NUC territory.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Yes. I don’t imagine we will see Linux Mint on these soon (though I could be wrong).

      I have put command line Armbian on previous Orange Pi devices happily enough.

      With the AI bait in the ad text, I’m guessing the first adopters of this will be folks running a custom purpose home headless local LLM?

      I’m still tempted to get one for my own shop PC and just run Armbian desktop. I bet Octoprint would run great on this.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Orange Pi makes some cool stuff. It’s nice to see them at it again.

    And this feels like leaning into their strengths - great power for the price in a small form factor.

    I found Orange Pi boards just okay as alternate Raspberry Pi boards, because many precompiled Pi projects aren’t compatible.

    But when I’m building my own thing on a Linux base, Orange Pi is a fantastic option - generally great hardware for the price, and a solid ecosystem of Linux base images (for a very affordable board, anyway.)