Orange Pi Nova: New single-board computer launching soon with up to 32 GB RAM and lesser spotted Loongson processor

Orange Pi has previewed a new single-board computer (SBC) that it is developing in partnership with Loongson. Showcased less than a month after Orange Pi released the R2S (curr. $41.99 on Amazon), the Orange Pi Nova leverages the Loongson 2K3000 chipset with 8 LA364E processor cores clocked at 2 GHz and an in-house LG200 GPU.

For reference, the latter supports OpenCL 1.1, OpenGL 3.3 and OpenCL ES 3.1. Moreover, the chipset offers up to 6 TOPS of AI acceleration (INT8) and allows the Orange Pi Nova to output to an external monitor at 4K and 60 FPS. Meanwhile, the SBC itself has an array of I/O like a 40-pin GPIO header, two six-pin CAN headers and an M.2 2280 SSD slot.

According to Orange Pi, the Orange Pi Nova will be available with up to 32 GB of DDR4 RAM via eight 16-bit chips. The photos that the company has published so far highlight ports like 2.5 Gigabit, USB Type-C, HDMI and multiple USB Type-A ports too. Pricing and availability remain unknown at this stage, though.