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Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

https://riscv.org/ecosystem-news/2025/09/orange-pi-rv2-40-risc-v-sbc-friendly-gateway-to-iot-and-ai-projects/
29•warrenm•2d ago

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kirito1337•2d ago
I don't like RISC-V unless it has a good GPU
warrenm•2d ago
GPUs are [effectively] irrelevant for many use cases (IoT, embedded, most servers, etc)
_zoltan_•53m ago
the title says "... AI projects". now, maybe our definitions are different, but you probably want some hardware acceleration.
snvzz•2d ago
Attach your favourite GPU at the PCIe slot.
webdevver•1h ago
they all suck. someone needs to make an open source gpu already, its been way too long.
ekianjo•1h ago
It's probably a series of patent landmines...
AnthonyMouse•41m ago
Hardware patents are orthogonal to open source software. If a patent covers the hardware then someone who wants to manufacture the hardware needs to license the patent, but you were never going to get free-as-in-beer hardware anyway, and a hardware patent is independent of whether the hardware is fully documented or has firmware with published source code and a license that allows users to make changes to it.
timschmidt•49m ago
We did back in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project

And there have been some others as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

Recently https://www.furygpu.com/

Part of the problem is that every ASIC manufacturer (and indeed each fabrication process) has a different toolchain with a different set of primitives for circuit design. Yosys and other open tooling for FPGAs has helped a great deal in lowering the barrier to chip design and by association reuse of circuits. But every ASIC, at the moment, is tied to some vendor's PDK. Here's the one Google open sourced for Cypress Semi's SKY130 process node: https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk

Findecanor•12m ago
It is at least theoretically possible to build a headless "GPU" from RISC-V processors that have the vector extension (RVV). RVV had been designed to be able to run programs compiled for the SIMT execution model that most GPUs use.

This Orange Pi RV2 has a small vector unit in each core, and could be used for at least prototyping the software until more powerful chips are available.

BTW. There have also been a couple hardware startups that have been working on commercial GPUs based on RISC-V's vector extension, with their own GPU-specific instruction set extensions for texture lookup and the like.

ekianjo•1h ago
More info here from a few months back: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-revi...
jauntywundrkind•1h ago
Absolutely smoked by rpi5, often by rpi4. To make matters worse, a radically unsupported core with no mainline support. https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-rv2-benchmarks/2
protocolture•1h ago
I keep seeing suggestions that theres no software support for Orange Pi.

Whats the go there? Is there no distro like Raspbian supporting it?

rcarmo•30m ago
There are plenty of Orange Pi boards with Armbian or unofficial Ubuntu support, but they’re ARM based.
chithanh•28m ago
Xunlong (Orange Pi) operates similarly to Pine64, throw hardware at the community and then let the community figure out the software part.

They provide official OS images at release but don't care much afterwards.

5d41402abc4b•1h ago
Are there any SBC with memory slot so that i can plug in 32GiB or more of RAM?
rcarmo•33m ago
Not really. Most in the ARM space, at least, are soldered on or you need to switch out the entire compute module. Intel ones (not mini-PCs, but industrial gear and things like the LattePanda) also tend to have soldered RAM.
chithanh•33m ago
Yes, lots of Intel and AMD based SBCs have SO-DIMM slots, but you'll have to accept the 3.5" format.

Regarding RISC-V SBCs, there was serious consideration to release the Milk-V Oasis with SG2380 and LPCAMM2. But this didn't work out as the SG2380 was held up by geopolitical issues.

asadm•35m ago
2 TOPS is not a lot for AI projects.
jdiaz97•15m ago
It's a lot for 40 USD. And not every AI project is a Language Model project.
rcarmo•32m ago
I had a go at it a few months ago: https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/12/2230

Not bad at all, but the OpenWRT image still didn’t have Wi-Fi support a week or so ago, so I don’t know how good software support is going to be in the long run.

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Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

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