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Milk-V Jupiter 2 Is the World's First RVA23-Compliant RISC-V SBC With 60 TOPS AI Acceleration

Milk-V's Jupiter 2 opens pre-orders with RVA23 compliance, a SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V CPU, 60 TOPS on-chip AI acceleration, 10GbE, and up to 32GB LPDDR5 from $199.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20265 min read
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MSI's MS-CF19 Is a Fanless 3.5-Inch Industrial SBC With Intel Core Ultra and 96GB DDR5

MSI's new MS-CF19 industrial single-board computer packs Intel Core Ultra 100U/200U chips, up to 96GB DDR5 via dual SODIMM, and a fully fanless design into a compact 3.5-inch form factor.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
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Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5

Sanctuary Systems launched the Sentinel Core on Crowd Supply — a $129 open-hardware mini-ITX carrier board that gives the CM5 a full-size PCIe x16 expansion slot.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
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Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench

Orange Pi's new AI Station packs a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 176 TOPS of AI performance and up to 96GB LPDDR4X RAM into a maker-friendly mini PC.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 6, 20264 min read
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Asus NUC 16 Pro Goes on Sale — the First Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Available to Buy

The Asus NUC 16 Pro hits shelves with Intel's new Panther Lake Core Ultra processors, starting at $999 — a powerful compact desktop with an Intel Arc B390 GPU in the high-end config.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 4, 20264 min read
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LILYGO T-Display-P4 Packs GPS, LoRaWAN, and Ethernet Into a Smartphone-Style ESP32 Dev Board

LILYGO's new T-Display-P4 combines the ESP32-P4 RISC-V chip with GPS, LoRa radio, Wi-Fi 6, Ethernet, and a crisp 4-inch touch display in a hacker-friendly handheld launching today.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 31, 20264 min read
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Sipeed's llmdev.guide Benchmarks Every Mini PC for Local AI Performance

Sipeed launched an interactive hardware comparison tool on March 30 that visualizes tokens-per-second benchmarks across dozens of mini PCs, SBCs, and GPUs for local LLM deployment.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 31, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

M5Stack Stamp-P4 Is a $12.95 RISC-V AI Board Smaller Than a Postage Stamp

M5Stack's Stamp-P4 squeezes an ESP32-P4 RISC-V processor, 32MB PSRAM, MIPI camera and display interfaces, and 44 GPIOs into a 30x22mm board for just $12.95.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 30, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Luckfox Lume Is a $21 Industrial SBC With Dual Gigabit Ethernet and RISC-V

The Luckfox Lume combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, a 40-pin GPIO header, and hybrid Arm/RISC-V silicon into a compact industrial SBC for just $20.99.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 29, 20264 min read
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picoZ80 Gives Vintage Z80 Machines a Raspberry Pi RP2350B Brain

The picoZ80 is a cycle-accurate, DIP-40 Z80 replacement built on Raspberry Pi RP2350B — giving classic vintage computers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and modern compute for free.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 29, 20264 min read
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ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE Brings Raspberry Pi's 40-Pin GPIO to a 400 MHz RISC-V Board

The ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE combines a 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V microcontroller and Wi-Fi 6 with a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO header for next-generation maker projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 27, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Alibaba's XuanTie C950 Sets a RISC-V World Record and Runs AI Agents Natively

Alibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950 5nm RISC-V processor hits 3.2GHz and sets a new benchmark record, becoming the first RISC-V chip to natively support 100B-parameter AI models.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 26, 20264 min read
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Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Is a $299 Open-Source AI Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4

Hugging Face's Reachy Mini desktop robot brings open-source AI interaction to makers for $299–$449, with the wireless version running on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 26, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Clintech Pico Unlocks All 48 GPIOs on Raspberry Pi's RP2354B for Just $20

Clintech's $20 Pico-compatible board is the first to use the RP2354B chip variant, exposing all 48 GPIO pins alongside dual ARM and RISC-V cores for embedded developers.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 26, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Espressif Announces ESP32-S31: Its Most Powerful Wireless MCU Yet

Espressif unveils the ESP32-S31, a dual-core RISC-V MCU with Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, BT, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, USB 2.0 High Speed, and MIPI-CSI camera.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 25, 20264 min read
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Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PCs With 128GB RAM Flood the Market

At least nine Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs with 128GB unified memory are now shipping, bringing desktop AI workstation power to compact form factors from $2,399.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 24, 20264 min read
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Arctic Senza AI 370: A Completely Fanless Mini PC That Mounts Under Your Desk

Arctic releases the Senza AI 370, a fanless mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB LPDDR5X, Radeon 890M, and a radiator-style chassis that claims 50C under gaming load.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 23, 20264 min read
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Radxa AICore DX-M1M Delivers 25 TOPS of Edge AI in an M.2 Module That Sips Just 3 Watts

Radxa and DEEPX release a tiny M.2 2242 AI accelerator with 25 TOPS INT8 performance at 3W, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and x86 hosts, starting at $85.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 22, 20264 min read
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DRAM Surge Pushes Raspberry Pi and Mini PC Prices to Parity — Used Hardware Becomes 2026's Best Homelab Strategy

A 171% DRAM price spike erases the Pi's cost advantage over Intel N100 mini PCs, with Jeff Geerling and homelab experts recommending used corporate hardware as the smart play.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 20, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

NVIDIA Open-Sources Cosmos World Models and Isaac GR00T N1 — Giving Robotics Developers a Free Physics Engine for AI

The Cosmos world foundation models and GR00T N1 humanoid robot model are now available on GitHub, enabling simulation-to-reality robotics development on Jetson edge hardware.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 19, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

NVIDIA IGX Thor Hits General Availability — Bringing Real-Time Physical AI to Factory Floors and Industrial Edge

The industrial-grade edge AI platform delivers high-speed sensor processing with enterprise reliability and functional safety certifications for manufacturing and robotics deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 18, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Arduino Turns 21 With the Ventuno Q — A Dual-Brain SBC That Pairs Qualcomm AI With STM32 Motor Control for Robotics

Arduino's birthday board combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 running 40 TOPS of AI inference with a dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller for real-time actuation in a single platform.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 17, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer

The Orange Pi AI Station pairs 10 dedicated AI cores with 16 CPU cores, up to 96GB LPDDR4X, and 256GB eMMC — delivering data-center-class AI inference on a 130mm board.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 16, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Sapphire's Strix Halo Mini PC Packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With 128GB RAM and RTX 4070-Class Graphics Into a Tiny Box

Demoed at Embedded World 2026, the Sapphire Edge AI Max+ 395 runs 16 Zen 5 cores at 5.1 GHz, a Radeon 8060S iGPU, and can link two units via USB-C for pooled LLM inference.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 14, 20264 min read