Orion O6 ITX Arm V9 board – temper your expectations

> like many Radxa hardware products, the hardware seems to be in a pretty good place. The software? Not so much ... I've harped on this numerous times: one reason I prefer Raspberry Pi, despite the lower value hardware per dollar spent

I agree. Same with FriendlyElec, Orange Pi, and especially Banana Pi

I love Radxa. When the time comes to replace my Raspberry Pi, I will likely buy a Radxa board.

Cool that it fits in a Mini ITX case and has a standard boot system rather than requiring custom images that won't get updated after two years.

Somewhat a low cost alternative to building a ARM desktop PC to Ammpere. You could build a low cost NAS by putting additional storage over the PCIE slot.

I wonder if it comes with a shroud to go over the ports if put in a case.

Here's a Geekbench comparison vs Orange Pi 5+ with rk3588. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/10014991?baseli...

60% or better lift across the board for single core. Not bad imo.

Catching up with a larger tablet/MID (mobile internet device)/ultra Snapdragon 8cx gen3 is unlikely to come from nowhere. The A720 class core here is good, Neoverse N3 class, but it's still a small chip for arm.

On phones there's been the Cortex-X cores above in the lineup for a long time. It's widely assumed the bigger performance flagship Neoverse V3 services from the Cortex-X lineup. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21270/arm-announces-neoverse-...

What's the power consumption actually looking like?!? 8 wasn't expecting anywhere remotely near phone or desktop cores, apple or Qualcomm chips. Also note that this has considerably more I/o than I think anything made by Qualcomm?

There was zero chance this thing was going to come out of the gate well supported with mainline Linux support & a good uefi/acpi boot chain. Whether Cix can straddle the line & release enough information while not breaking any disclosure limits ARM is setting will as ever be a challenge, assuming Cix even wants to make this a well supported chip some day.

Radxa bears some responsibility as an integrator and board maker but it is such a wider web of work that it takes to make these things happen, and although open source has amazing force multipliers of existing libraries, there's countless force dividers of legal × documentation challenges that detract.

One does not just ship ARM Immortalis GC10 support! These are broader projects, are practically civilization scale or deci-civlizatiok scale efforts, ones open source would gladly be doing & more fervently... If there weren't so so many lawyers & NDA's in the mix, from the top on down.

I'm still very excited here. This looks like it could be an awesome nas. I wonder if it'll support PCIe-bifurcation, which would help NAS'ing it out so much. Jeff? :)

Would be cool if that SoC gets released on a "compute module" board design, so it can be used with ComputeBlade. Would love to build a cluster out of a few of them.

https://computeblade.com/