Embedded computing specialist Orange Pi has launched a successor to its Orange Pi RV single-board laptop, this time concentrating on delivering energy-efficient compute for synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI and ML) on the edge: the Orange PI RV2.
“Orange Pi RV2 is an economical RISC-V growth board with Ky X1 eight-core RISC-V AI CPU,” the corporate claims of its newest launch, “offering 2 TOPS [Tera-Operations Per Second] CPU fusion of general-purpose computing energy to help speedy deployment of AI mannequin algorithms. It has 2GB/4GB/8GB LPDDR4X [RAM], helps eMMC module (16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB non-obligatory), has Wi-Fi 5.0 + [Bluetooth] 5.0, with BLE [Bluetooth Low Energy] help.”
Orange Pi has introduced the RV2, a RISC-V single-board laptop concentrating on edge AI tasks. (📷: Orange Pi)
The gadget, dropped at our consideration by Linux Gizmos, is predicated across the Ky X1 system-on-chip; its eight RISC-V cores are, the corporate claims, round a 3rd once more as quick as an Arm Cortex-A55 core operating on the identical clock velocity, and ship a complete of over 40,000 Dhrystone thousands and thousands of directions per second (DMIPS) of compute — and a “CPU-fused” neural processing subsystem with a claimed two tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at INT8 precision for AI and ML workloads, regardless of the shortage of a devoted neural processing unit (NPU).
The boards can be found with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of LPDDR4X reminiscence and an non-obligatory eMMC module of between 16GB and 128GB, expandable by way of microSD Card or a pair of PCI Categorical Gen. 2 M.2 M-key sockets with Non-Risky Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) help. There’s on-board Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and Bluetooth Low Vitality (BLE) connectivity, plus two gigabit Ethernet ports, help for 1920×1440 shows at as much as 60 frames per second over HDMI 2.0 or four-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI), two four-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI) inputs, three USB 3.0 ports and a USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) port, a four-pin header for a further USB 2.0 port, analog audio out and in, and a 26-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header with UART, I2C, and SPI buses, plus pulse-width modulation (PWM) help.
The underside features a second M.2 M-key slot, designed for bigger 2280-format NVMe drives. (📷: Orange Pi)
Orange Pi is positioning the machine as ideally suited for anybody on the lookout for an energy-efficient system for experimenting with synthetic intelligence on the edge — even going as far as to say the design has been “deeply tailored to DeepSeek,” the recently-released freely-downloadable giant language mannequin. This, nonetheless, refers back to the “distilled” fashions, the place the bigger DeepSeek has been used to hone smaller present fashions — the complete DeepSeek requiring nearly two terabytes of reminiscence to run, and thus being considerably outsized for the Orange Pi RV2.
The corporate has listed the board on the market on AliExpress at $30 for the 2GB variant, $39.90 for the 4GB model, and $49.90 for the 8GB mannequin. Extra data is obtainable on the Orange Pi web site.
