Banana Pi BPI-M7 now available with Rockchip RK3588 chipset and Android 12 support

The BPI-M7 is now available to purchase globally, over two months after Banana Pi revealed the single-board computer (SBC). To recap, the company claimed in mid-November that the BPI-M7 was 'sample ready' and featured the Rockchip RK3588, an SoC with four ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores, four ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores, a Mali-G610 MP4 GPU and an NPU that outputs at up to 6 TOPS.

Additionally, the 92 x 62 mm board houses a pair of 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, a single HDMI port and four USB ports split evenly between Type-A and Type-C standards. Storage wise, the BPI-M7 boasts a MicroSD card slot and M.2 2280 slot for PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs, plus 64 GB or 128 GB of eMMC flash storage. Moreover, the SBC has a 40-pin GPIO header that Banana Pi claims is compatible with Raspberry Pi accessories.

The BPI-M7 will support Android 12, Debian Buster and the Linux 5.10 kernel. However, Banana Pi has not uploaded any OS images yet, with Linux kernel and u-boot source codes listed instead. Currently, the BPI-M7 starts at $165 with 8 GB of RAM and 64 GB of eMMC flash storage. Other memory configurations should be available soon though, with 16 GB and 32 GB of RAM, plus 128 GB of storage options mentioned previously.

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