Orange Pi has introduced the Orange Pi 6 Plus, a single-board computer intended for high-performance and AI-oriented computing tasks. It uses the CIX CD8180/CD8160 SoC with a 12-core 64-bit CPU and an NPU rated at up to 45 TOPS. The SoC includes a 12-core architecture paired with an integrated graphics processor supporting hardware-accelerated ray tracing and 8K video decoding. While…
Yes. I don’t imagine we will see Linux Mint on these soon (though I could be wrong).
I have put command line Armbian on previous Orange Pi devices happily enough.
With the AI bait in the ad text, I’m guessing the first adopters of this will be folks running a custom purpose home headless local LLM?
I’m still tempted to get one for my own shop PC and just run Armbian desktop. I bet Octoprint would run great on this.