Pine64’s RISC-V Ox64 Takes On Raspberry Pi Pico W

The Raspberry Pi Pico W has a brand new competitor within the type of Pine64’s upcoming Ox64, noticed by CNX Software program (opens in new tab), which makes use of the more and more common RISC-V structure to pack quite a lot of computing energy right into a tiny house. A lot, in reality, that it is beginning to blur the boundaries between microcontrollers and SBCs.

There’s been no official announcement, the corporate hasn’t tweeted or blogged about it, and there isn’t any technique to truly purchase the board but, however we do know loads about it because of a put up on the Pine64 Wiki. There is a dual-core Bouffalo Lab BL808 RISC-V (opens in new tab) SoC on the coronary heart of it, however the cores are mismatched: one is an Alibaba T-head C906 64-bit core working at 480MHz, whereas the opposite is an Alibaba T-head E907 32-bit core at 230MHz. There is a huge, for a microcontroller, 64MB of RAM, an AI engine (Bouffalo’s BLAI-100), Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5, plus IEEE 802.15.4, higher often known as Zigbee. There’s as much as 128Mbit of flash storage too, plus a micro SD card slot, and should you match it right into a provider board with an Ethernet port, it could use that too.