A developer compared the Orange Pi 5 Max and Radxa Rock 5B+ single-board computers, both based on the RK3588 chip, finding that the Orange Pi 5 Max 32GB model is priced at $211.99, significantly cheap…
Orange Pi has released two new single-board computers, the Zero 4 and Zero 3W, both powered by the Allwinner A733 SoC with a 3 TOPS NPU. The Zero 4 offers versatile I/O and networking, while the Zero …
CrankGPT is a fully offline, hand-cranked AI box that runs local language models on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM, requiring no battery or cloud connection. The device uses a 20W hand-crank generator …
Emerging Robotics founder and developer Jordan Herlein announced Gorai, an open-source robotics framework written in Go that treats a robot as a distributed system with sensors as resources and actuat…
A developer provides a technical guide for compiling llama.cpp on Debian 12/13, covering native builds and cross-compilation from x86_64 to ARM64. The guide includes steps for enabling OpenBLAS and ve…
A new analysis of edge AI hardware reveals that TOPS (trillions of operations per second) is a poor predictor of large language model (LLM) performance, with memory capacity and bandwidth being the cr…
The Orange Pi 6 single-board computer features a 12-core CIX CD8180 processor, up to 24GB of RAM, and 45 TOPS of AI compute power, including a 28.8 TOPS NPU. It supports 8K video decoding, dual 2.5GbE…
CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box powered by a hand crank, running speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally on a single-board computer without battery or internet. It al…