The Orange Pi RV is a single board computer that's slightly larger than a credit card (or a Raspberry Pi 5), but still small enough to easily hold in the palm of your hand or slide into a pocket. It's also one of the first Orange Pi-branded products to feature a RISC-V processor.

The 89 x 56mm (3.5″ x 2.2″) computer is powered by a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 processor with four RV64GC CPU cores, support for up to 8GB of memory, and plenty of I/O capabilities. The company that makes Orange Pi devices first revealed it was working on the board earlier this year, but now the company has published specs on the Orange Pi website and created a product page at Amazon (although the board's not currently available for purchase and the price isn't shown at time of publication).

The JH7110 processor isn't exactly a speed demon. But it provides a platform for developers and hobbyists looking to get started working with RISC-V chips. And it's relatively well supported at this point, since the processor has been around for a few years, and has been used in a number of boards from companies including Milk-V, Pine64, Geniatech, and Framework.

In the case of the Orange Pi RV, that processor is paired with a board that comes with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of LPDDR4-2800 single-channel onboard memory and features a microSD card reader and M.2 2280 slot for PCIE 2.0 SSD storage.

Other ports and connectors include:

  • 4 x USB 3.0 Type-A
  • 1 x USB 2.0 Type-C (for power and data)
  • 1 x HDMI
  • 1 x 3.5mm headphone
  • 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 1 x MIPI-DSI display connector (2-lane)
  • 1 x MIPI-CSI camera connector (2-lane)
  • 40 pin GPIO header

    • There's also support for WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.

    Orang Pi says the board supports "Linux" and there are download links for "official images" on the Orange Pi V website, but at time of publication the Debian Image link takes you to an empty Google Drive folder, while the Linux Source code link takes you to a GitHub project page with some code for most recent Orange Pi boards.

    via LinuxGizmos

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