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Cover illustration for Beelink Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to Three New Mini PC Families — The EQ Mini, EQi, and ME Pro Get the Core 3 304 Treatment
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Beelink Brings Intel Wildcat Lake to Three New Mini PC Families — The EQ Mini, EQi, and ME Pro Get the Core 3 304 Treatment

Beelink unveiled three Intel Wildcat Lake-powered mini PCs on May 27, 2026 — the EQ Mini, EQi, and ME Pro families now ship with the Intel Core 3 304 processor for low-power desktop computing.

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Alex CircuitMay 30, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for AAEON's MIX-PTLWV1 Brings Panther Lake to Industrial Mini-ITX — Quad DisplayPort, Dual 10GbE, and 128GB DDR5
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AAEON's MIX-PTLWV1 Brings Panther Lake to Industrial Mini-ITX — Quad DisplayPort, Dual 10GbE, and 128GB DDR5

AAEON announced the MIX-PTLWV1 on May 28, 2026 — an industrial mini-ITX motherboard built on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake, with four 4K DisplayPort outputs, dual 10GbE plus dual 2.5GbE, and up to 128GB DDR5.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 28, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Modos Flow Launches on Crowd Supply — A 13.3-Inch FPGA-Driven Color E-Paper Touchscreen Monitor for $619
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Modos Flow Launches on Crowd Supply — A 13.3-Inch FPGA-Driven Color E-Paper Touchscreen Monitor for $619

Modos launched the Flow on Crowd Supply on May 27, 2026 — a fully open-source 13.3-inch USB-C color e-paper touchscreen monitor with FPGA-driven partial refresh hitting 60 Hz, priced at $619 monochrome and $719 color.

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Alex CircuitMay 27, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Khadas Mind Graphics 2 Reviewed — An RTX 5060 Ti eGPU That Snaps Onto a Mini PC and Hits High-End Tower Speeds
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Khadas Mind Graphics 2 Reviewed — An RTX 5060 Ti eGPU That Snaps Onto a Mini PC and Hits High-End Tower Speeds

CNX Software's May 25, 2026 review of the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 confirms a 4-to-6x graphics speed-up over the Mind 2 mini PC's iGPU via a magnetic PCIe 4.0 x8 Mind Link connector.

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Alex CircuitMay 26, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for SpacemiT K3 Pico‑ITX Chassis Kit Hits the Bench — A 16‑Core RISC‑V Mini PC With Real Desktop Ambitions
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SpacemiT K3 Pico‑ITX Chassis Kit Hits the Bench — A 16‑Core RISC‑V Mini PC With Real Desktop Ambitions

CNX Software opened its SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX Chassis Kit review on May 23, 2026 — putting the 16-core RVA23 RISC-V mini PC with 16GB RAM, 10GbE, and Wi-Fi 6E through its first boot.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 25, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for M5Stack Unveils CardputerZero — A Raspberry Pi CM0 Pocket Linux Lab With a 46‑Key Keyboard and HDMI Out
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M5Stack Unveils CardputerZero — A Raspberry Pi CM0 Pocket Linux Lab With a 46‑Key Keyboard and HDMI Out

M5Stack revealed the CardputerZero on May 25, 2026 — the first Cardputer powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero, with a 46-key keyboard, HDMI, Fast Ethernet, and Kickstarter pricing from $59.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 25, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Flipper One Lands — A Rockchip RK3576 + RP2350 Open-Hardware Arm Linux Multitool With Mainline Kernel, Wi-Fi 6E, and 10GbE Emulation
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Flipper One Lands — A Rockchip RK3576 + RP2350 Open-Hardware Arm Linux Multitool With Mainline Kernel, Wi-Fi 6E, and 10GbE Emulation

Flipper Devices officially unveiled the Flipper One on May 21, 2026 — a Rockchip RK3576 portable Arm Linux multi-tool with an RP2350 sidecar, mainline kernel support via Collabora, and a sub-$350 target price.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 25, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Espressif's ESP32-S31 Brings Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, and 802.15.4 to a Dual-Core RISC-V Microcontroller
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Espressif's ESP32-S31 Brings Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, and 802.15.4 to a Dual-Core RISC-V Microcontroller

Espressif documented two ESP32-S31 development boards on May 22, 2026 — the most feature-rich ESP32 to date, with dual RISC-V cores, gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 connectivity.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 25, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Seeed Studio's reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 Edge AI Boxes Get One-Click LLM Deployment via AI Lab
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Seeed Studio's reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 Edge AI Boxes Get One-Click LLM Deployment via AI Lab

Seeed Studio launched the reComputer RK3576 and RK3588 Edge AI computers on May 21, 2026 — Rockchip NPUs, triple display output, and one-click deployment of vision, speech, and local LLM models through the reComputer AI Lab platform.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 24, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Hardkernel's ODROID-H5 Lands With 10GbE, Four M.2 Slots, and an Intel Core i3-N300 — A Homelab SBC for $250
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Hardkernel's ODROID-H5 Lands With 10GbE, Four M.2 Slots, and an Intel Core i3-N300 — A Homelab SBC for $250

Hardkernel introduced the ODROID-H5 on May 20, 2026 — a $250 x86 single-board computer with an eight-core Intel Core i3-N300, a 10GbE RJ45 port, four M.2 PCIe slots, and DDR5 support up to 64GB.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 24, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for The ONEXStation Mini AI PC Hits Pre-Order — Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB Unified Memory, $2,999
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The ONEXStation Mini AI PC Hits Pre-Order — Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB Unified Memory, $2,999

ONEXPLAYER opened pre-orders for the ONEXStation Mini AI PC on May 18, 2026 — Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB LPDDR5x unified memory, and 100B-parameter local AI workload support for $2,999.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 22, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Firefly's CSC2-N48SPK3 Lands — A 48-Node RISC-V AI Server With 2,880 TOPS in a Single 2U Chassis
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Firefly's CSC2-N48SPK3 Lands — A 48-Node RISC-V AI Server With 2,880 TOPS in a Single 2U Chassis

Firefly unveiled the CSC2-N48SPK3 on May 20, 2026 — a dense 2U RISC-V AI server with 48 SpacemiT K3 nodes, 2,880 TOPS of INT4 AI performance, and 48 NVMe SSD slots for up to 768 TB of storage.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 20, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Zotac's CM5-PICO Is the Smallest, Most Feature-Dense Raspberry Pi CM5 Mini PC Yet — ISE 2026 Debut
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Zotac's CM5-PICO Is the Smallest, Most Feature-Dense Raspberry Pi CM5 Mini PC Yet — ISE 2026 Debut

Zotac will unveil the CM5-PICO at ISE 2026 — a 114.8x76x31 mm passively cooled Raspberry Pi CM5 mini PC with dual 4K HDMI, USB-C, NVMe, an NPU slot, and the full HAT header inside an aluminum chassis.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 20, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Anthropic Opens Claude's Bluetooth API — Open-Source Desktop Buddy Turns an ESP32 Into a Real AI Desk Pet
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Anthropic Opens Claude's Bluetooth API — Open-Source Desktop Buddy Turns an ESP32 Into a Real AI Desk Pet

Anthropic open-sourced the Claude Desktop Buddy on May 16, 2026 — a Bluetooth Low Energy reference project that turns a $30 ESP32-S3 board into an interactive hardware companion for the Claude desktop app.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 18, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for ASUS Unveils the ROG NUC 2026 — Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU in a Compact Gaming Mini PC
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ASUS Unveils the ROG NUC 2026 — Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU in a Compact Gaming Mini PC

ASUS launched the ROG NUC 2026 and ROG NUC 16 2026 gaming mini PCs on May 15, 2026 — pairing the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an NVIDIA RTX 5080 Laptop GPU in a redesigned chassis.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 18, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for Pi Slate Cyberdeck Lands — A Raspberry Pi 5 Handheld With a Touchscreen, RGB Keyboard, and Modular HATs
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Pi Slate Cyberdeck Lands — A Raspberry Pi 5 Handheld With a Touchscreen, RGB Keyboard, and Modular HATs

Carbon Computers' Pi Slate brings the Raspberry Pi 5 into a compact handheld cyberdeck on May 11, 2026 — a 5-inch touchscreen, backlit keyboard, modular HAT support, and a 10,000 mAh battery.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 16, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Goes Global — A Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Handheld With Detachable Controllers and an 8.8-inch OLED
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ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Goes Global — A Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Handheld With Detachable Controllers and an 8.8-inch OLED

ONEXPLAYER confirmed the X2 Mini for global release on May 13, 2026 — a 3-in-1 handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with an 8.8-inch 144 Hz OLED and detachable controllers.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 16, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for SpacemiT's K3 Pico-ITX SBC Goes Official — RVA23-Compliant RISC-V With 60 TOPS for Edge AI Builds
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SpacemiT's K3 Pico-ITX SBC Goes Official — RVA23-Compliant RISC-V With 60 TOPS for Edge AI Builds

SpacemiT officially launched the K3 Pico-ITX SBC and K3-CoM260 SoM on May 11, 2026 — RVA23-compliant RISC-V boards with up to 60 TOPS of AI performance, 32GB LPDDR5, and 256GB UFS.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 16, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Start9 Drops a Fully Open RISC-V Router — SpacemiT K1, StartWRT, and a Crowdfunding Goal Built on Open Source
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Start9 Drops a Fully Open RISC-V Router — SpacemiT K1, StartWRT, and a Crowdfunding Goal Built on Open Source

Start9 unveiled its open-source RISC-V router on May 15, 2026 — built on the SpacemiT K1 with 4GB LPDDR4, WiFi 6, dual GbE, and the new StartWRT OpenWrt fork, with backers starting at $300.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 16, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for DEEPX Drops the DX-AIPlayer — A 25 TOPS Intel N97 Mini PC Built for Real-Time Vision AI
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DEEPX Drops the DX-AIPlayer — A 25 TOPS Intel N97 Mini PC Built for Real-Time Vision AI

DEEPX launched the DX-AIPlayer on May 14, 2026 — an ultra-compact edge AI mini PC pairing an Intel N97 SoC with the DX-M1 M.2 AI accelerator for 25 TOPS of vision inference at 1-5 watts.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard III Brings 60 TOPS of SpacemiT K3 to the Framework Laptop 13
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DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard III Brings 60 TOPS of SpacemiT K3 to the Framework Laptop 13

Deep Computing released the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard III on May 13, 2026 — a Framework Laptop 13 swap board with an octa-core SpacemiT K3, up to 60 TOPS sparse AI performance, 32GB RAM, and 1TB NVMe.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Khadas Mind Graphics 2 Brings an RTX 5060 Ti eGPU to the Mind 2 — And Mind xPlay Turns It Into a Laptop
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Khadas Mind Graphics 2 Brings an RTX 5060 Ti eGPU to the Mind 2 — And Mind xPlay Turns It Into a Laptop

Khadas's new Mind Graphics 2 docks an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB into the Mind 2 mini PC via native PCIe 4.0 x8 Mind Link, while the $399 Mind xPlay portable display converts the same chassis into a clamshell laptop.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 14, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for MINISFORUM Drops the M2 Mini PC With Intel Panther Lake — Starting at $575 With Core Ultra 7 356H
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MINISFORUM Drops the M2 Mini PC With Intel Panther Lake — Starting at $575 With Core Ultra 7 356H

MINISFORUM's M2 mini PC hit availability May 12, 2026 — an entry-level Panther Lake mini PC built on the Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, with up to 64GB LPDDR5X and dual M.2 SSD support, from $575.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Firefly's AIBOX-K3 Lands May 12 — A $349 RISC-V Edge AI Mini PC Running 30B Local LLMs at 60 TOPS
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Firefly's AIBOX-K3 Lands May 12 — A $349 RISC-V Edge AI Mini PC Running 30B Local LLMs at 60 TOPS

Firefly launched the AIBOX-K3 Edge AI mini PC on May 12, 2026 — a fanless desktop chassis pairing the SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V SoC with 60 TOPS of AI compute, starting at $349.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 13, 20267 min read