New cheap board with Raspberry Pi form factor supports WiFi 6 and PoE

A new developer board comes in the form factor of the Raspberry Pi and other typical single-board computers. However, the ESP32-P4-Pi-Viewe is a developer board, so it is not really intended to be used with a desktop OS or as a media center. The system includes two chips. Specifically, it uses the ESP32-P4, which features two RISC-V cores clocked at 360 Hz. It is paired with an ESP32-C6FH4 coprocessor that provides WiFi 6 and Bluetooth. Wired network connectivity is also supported, although the Ethernet port only offers data transfer speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s. In most cases, extremely high transfer speeds are unlikely to matter here, and around 12 MB/s should be more than enough to send measurement data over a network, for example. PoE, meaning power delivery over Ethernet, is supported.

There is also a 40-pin GPIO header. This means expansion boards designed for the Raspberry Pi can at least be used on a mechanical level. Displays and cameras can be connected via MIPI-CSI and MIPI-DSI. USB 2.0 Type-A is included. The board is also advertised as having two microphones, which in principle should make acoustic interaction possible as well. The board is sold directly by the manufacturer for $18.