Despite the cries for updated hardware, the Raspberry Pi foundation has been playing it cool. The Raspberry Pi Becomes a Form Factor article tells that they’re committed to getting the most out of their engineering investment, and the current board design for the Raspi doesn’t support more than 512Mb of memory, anyway.
It seems that like Arduino there seems to be other products that use the same form factor that one product has made popular. The Raspberry Pi Becomes a Form Factor article tells that the folks at SolidRun are merely using this Raspberry Pi form factor board as a prototyping and development platform for their CuBox-i device. Carrier-one from SolidRun has a system-on-module with a quad core ARM Cortex-A9, 2GB of RAM, 1000 Mbps Ethernet, USB host ports, eSATA, and LVDS display connector, a real time clock, and everything else you get with a Raspberry Pi, header pins included. It’s a newer ARM board that will still work with all your Raspberry Pi hardware.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
AAEON Unveils New Raspberry Pi-Like Intel Alder Lake SBCs — “The World’s Smallest,” It Claims
With up to four cores and 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM, this Raspberry Pi-style SBC family packs a real computational punch.
https://www.hackster.io/news/aaeon-unveils-new-raspberry-pi-like-intel-alder-lake-sbcs-the-world-s-smallest-it-claims-8f3735705779
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/08/27/cool-pi-arm-linux-laptop-rk3588/
Cool Pi Arm Linux Laptop with Rockchip RK3588 SoM sells for $358 and up.
Cool Pi has put its CM5 Rockchip RK3588 system-on-module to good use by integrating it into a 14.1-inch laptop with 1920×1080 resolution running Android 12, Ubuntu 22.04, or other Linux distributions.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Radxa has revisited its ROCK 3 platform, launching a respin which aims to combine the best of the worlds of desktop-style Pico-ITX and Raspberry Pi-style single-board computer form factors: the ROCK 3 Model B.
Radxa Launches the ROCK 3 Model B, a Pico-ITX Single-Board Computer Offering Mid-Range Performance
https://www.hackster.io/news/radxa-launches-the-rock-3-model-b-a-pico-itx-single-board-computer-offering-mid-range-performance-97063af1ad93?fbclid=IwAR1WmiItENPG6l6vA4wUkudS_vrO81k_DH6xfXaALVIph_-xM48UGOgmJ5Y
Originally announced in 2021, this board launches with weaker specs than the ROCK 5B — but a much lower pricetag.