- 2026-10-15
Orange Pi has added the O1 to its lineup, a single board computer built on the SOPHGO BM1688 , an octa-core Cortex-A53 SoC @ 1.65 GHz with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and, more importantly, a 16 TOPS INT8 neural accelerator (TPU) , as CNX Software details. SOPHGO, a Chinese chipmaker long confined to smart cameras, now …
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- 2026-10-15
HPMicro, one of the most active Chinese foundries on the RISC-V architecture, has announced the HPM5100 mixed-signal MCU family, led by the HPM5151 part: a 32-bit RISC-V core @ 400 MHz (up to 480 MHz in high-performance mode), 416 KB SRAM, 1 MB flash and — crucially — four 16-bit SAR ADCs at 2 MSPS, four operational a…
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- 2026-10-13
MINIX has introduced the N304-AI, a compact mini PC built around the Intel Core 3 304 SoC. The system targets users requiring local artificial intelligence processing within a small form factor, delivering 24 TOPS of AI performance. It is designed for environments where space is limited but computational efficiency fo…
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- 2026-10-12
Meta has published the Muse Gadgets SDK on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license, a kit that lets ESP32 boards and Linux devices such as the Raspberry Pi connect to Muse, the personal AI agent the company launched on 6 September, CNX Software reports. Framed as a "side project" by Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Su…
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- 2026-10-10
M5Stack, the parent of the modular ESP32 ecosystem, has unveiled the ToughC5 , a weatherproof outdoor IoT controller built around the ESP32-C5 — Espressif's chip with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 5 LE and an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee 3.0 and Thread 1.3, CNX Software details. It succeeds the 2021 TOUGH, the…
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- 2026-10-08
Arduino marks the first anniversary of the UNO Q, a board resulting from its integration into the Qualcomm Technologies family. The project aimed to deliver computing power and edge AI capabilities to makers, students, and professionals. This initiative sought to maintain the openness and accessibility characteristic …
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- 2026-10-07
Raspberry Pi shipped a new Raspberry Pi OS release on 6 October 2026, focused on desktop stability and built on Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS . As detailed by Linuxiac, the most visible change concerns the dock and taskbar: switching between them no longer resets appearance settings, and resizing or repositioning them in t…
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- 2026-10-06 ★
Raspberry Pi released a new build of Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac on 6 October 2026: a 64-bit Debian Trixie (amd64) image that brings the Raspberry Pi desktop environment to ordinary PCs, and even lets recent Intel Macs boot it. Simon Long's official post recounts how the "side quest" began in 2016 as a bet fro…
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- 2026-10-05
Raspberry Pi's official blog hosts a guest post by Sixfab and DEEPX on the AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a third-party accelerator board built around the DEEPX DX-M1M NPU: 25 TOPS of dedicated acceleration at roughly 3 W of sustained NPU power , leaving the Pi's CPU free for camera handling, application logic and connec…
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- 2026-10-04
The open-source ESP-SDR project has crossed a threshold: its firmware bypasses the ESP32's fixed-function Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modems to tap directly into the internal ADC chain , capturing raw I/Q baseband samples and streaming them to a computer over USB or UART, CNX Software reports. Paired with the browser-based ES…
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