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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on January 01, 2026, 23:00:47

Title: Orange Pi: New SBC or mini PC with up to 96GB RAM runs circles around Raspberry Pi 5 with 176 TOPS
Post by: Redaktion on January 01, 2026, 23:00:47
Orange Pi has introduced the so-called AI Station, which is a new single-board computer that can even be used as a base for a mini PC. This device can run various AI applications locally and can be hooked up to external sensors as well as actuators.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Orange-Pi-New-SBC-or-mini-PC-with-up-to-96GB-RAM-runs-circles-around-Raspberry-Pi-5-with-176-TOPS.1194902.0.html
Title: Re: Orange Pi: New SBC or mini PC with up to 96GB RAM runs circles around Raspberry Pi 5 with 176 TO
Post by: Haito on January 02, 2026, 11:42:50
With this level of memory bottleneck??
Title: Re: Orange Pi: New SBC or mini PC with up to 96GB RAM runs circles around Raspberry Pi 5 with 176 TO
Post by: Matias on January 03, 2026, 15:17:35
Quote from: Haito on January 02, 2026, 11:42:50With this level of memory bottleneck??

It was literally made for AI. The shortage is due to AI hardware. So shitty AI-first companies will not hesitate in buying this with a huge markup due to the RAM, most probably
Title: Re: Orange Pi: New SBC or mini PC with up to 96GB RAM runs circles around Raspberry Pi 5 with 176 TO
Post by: Illrigger on January 03, 2026, 16:45:08
Quote from: Haito on January 02, 2026, 11:42:50With this level of memory bottleneck??
It's based on a Huawei chip, so squarely targeted at Chinese buyers. The options for low power AI accelerators is pretty small to begin with, and every time a company tries to put one out they get locked out of sales there. By making a board that is entirely Chinese made, they get an option that by definition can't be banned from import, so is safe to buy in bulk.
Title: Re: Orange Pi: New SBC or mini PC with up to 96GB RAM runs circles around Raspberry Pi 5 with 176 TO
Post by: Matthias Granberry on January 08, 2026, 00:45:42
It's a bottleneck for autoregressive LLMs but you could run one heck of a CNN or diffusion model on something like this even with DDR4.  If the price is right it's a great idea with a lot of practical edge applications.
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