Orange Pi Embraces RISC-V with the Raspberry Pi-Like Orange Pi RV Single-Board Computer
Joining the likes of PINE64, Geniatech, and Milk-V, Orange Pi announces a Raspberry Pi-like SBC built atop the StarFive JH7110.
Single-board computer specialist Orange Pi has launched a new Raspberry Pi-like device powered by the StarFive JH7110 RISC-V system-on-chip: The Orange Pi RV.
"Orange Pi RV is a cost-effective RISC-V development board, equipped with [the] RISC-V quad-core processor JH7110," the company says of its latest hardware launch. "Based on the RISC-V architecture, Orange Pi RV enables open source to reach a higher level, developers can get more freedom and stronger ability to innovate and design industry-leading solutions, and better support enterprise technology innovation."
Using, as is typical for the company, the popular Raspberry Pi footprint as a layout guide, the Orange Pi RV — brought to our attention by Linux Gizmos — features StarFive's JH7110 system-on-chip, meaning there are four 64-bit RISC-V processor cores running at up to 1.5GHz, an Imagination BXE-4-32 graphics processor, and hardware codecs for 4k30 H.264/H.265 video and H.265 encoding at up to 1080p30. Orange Pi, meanwhile, has added to the board a choice of 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of LPDDR4 memory.
Elsewhere on the board is a Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 radio module, a gigabit Ethernet port, four USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI output good for 4k30 displays, a two-lane MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI), a two-lane MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI), 3.5mm analog audio output, and a 40-pin general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header. There's also an on-board M.2 M-key slot for 2280-footprint Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) drives, connecting over a single PCI Express Gen. 2 lane, along with a microSD Card slot with SDIO support
Orange Pi's latest isn't the only single-board computer to pick the StarFive JH7110 system-on-chip: last month Geniatech unveiled the XPI-7110 based around the same chip, while PINE64 has its Star64 and PineTab-V, Milk-V has the Mars and more recent Mars Compute Module, and StarFive itself has the VisionFive 2.
More information on the Orange Pi RV is available on the Orange Pi website; the company has readied a listing on Amazon for those looking to buy the board, but at the time of writing all models were showing as out of stock.