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Oct 14, 2023

Orange Pi Compute Module 4 with Rockchip RK3566 launches for under US$23

Shenzhen Xunlong has just introduced the Orange Pi Compute Module 4, a system-on-module (SoM) that's both mechanically and electrically compatible with the Raspberry Pi CM4. Powering the Orange Pi CM4

Shenzhen Xunlong has just introduced the Orange Pi Compute Module 4, a system-on-module (SoM) that's both mechanically and electrically compatible with the Raspberry Pi CM4.

Powering the Orange Pi CM4 is a Rockchip RK3566 SoC with four Arm Cortex-A55 cores clocked at up to 1.8 GHz. It's joined by up to 8 GB of LPDDR4(X) RAM and 128 GB of eMMC storage, with an AzureWave wireless module adding Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity.

A couple of 100-pin and a smaller 24-pin board-to-board connectors provide signaling for a variety of interfaces, including Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, eDP, MIPI display and camera interfaces, SATA 3, PCIe, audio, USB 3.0, along with three USB 2.0.

According to the company, the Orange Pi CM4 supports a multitude of operating systems, including Android, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenHarmony, and Orange Pi OS.

The Orange Pi Compute Module 4 starts at US$22.90 on AliExpress for the variant with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of flash storage. Shenzhen Xunlong is also offering a first-party baseboard to go with the module, which will set you back an additional US$9.90.

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