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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.

Gareth Halfacree
3 months ago β€’ HW101

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 β€” brought to our attention by Linux Gizmos β€” 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.

Gareth Halfacree
Freelance journalist, technical author, hacker, tinkerer, erstwhile sysadmin. For hire: freelance@halfacree.co.uk.
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