Nora Lee

We have concern RK3399 overheat issue, we'll evaluate cortex a72 for next project.

ROCKPro64 price$127.49 by https://es.aliexpress.com/item/32907755229.html, we'll check whether above price is acceptable for our current developers or customers.
 
 

Hi NicoD,
 
We design BPI-M4 due to PCIE for friendly expanding upgrade, pls find its price by http://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-m4-launches-for-38-with-m-2-40-pin-and-poe/ for reference.

Banana Pi BPI-M4 use Realtek RTD1395 chp design ,it is a 64-bit quad-core A53 mini single board computer. It features 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB eMMC. It also has onboard WiFi for b/g/n/ac and BT 4.2. On the ports side, the BPI-M4 has 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB TYPE C port, 1 HDMI port, 1 audio jack. support M.2 Key E PCIE 2.0 interface.
The RTD1395 is equipped with a high-performance quad-core CPU,ARM cortex-A53,with 512K L2 cache embedded. the RTD1395 also integrates and efficient ARM Mali-470 Graphic Processing Unit(GPU) to accelerate 2D and 3D graphics processing. For acceleration of this OSD and 2K user interface,the built-in Streaming Engine of the RTD1395 provides commonly used drawing functions.the CPU is dedicated to applications ,while most of the functions of the RTD1395 is dedicated to manipulating,decoding video streams in vaious formats.e.g. decoding 4K2K H.265,Full HD MPEG1/2/4/H.264/H.264 MVC,AVC/VC-1,VP8,VP9,AVS,AVS plus,HD JPEG,etc. Video DSP can also handle encoding of up to Full HD with H.264 format.Video decoding and encoding can run simultaneously.
 
Key Features
Realtek RTD1395 ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-Core 64 Bit
Mali 470 MP4 GPU OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 H.264 H.265,2K4K
Onboard1 GB DDR4 (option 2 GB)
8G eMMC flash (max 64 GB)
10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet and RTL8821 module support Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/AC + Bluetooth 4.2
USB 2.0 TYPE C
M.2 Key E slot PCIE 2.0 and USB 2.0
PoE function support
 
http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M4
http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-m4-sbc-bench-test/9469?fbclid=IwAR153yOkjt6t6Dn-eB7zPBoT19erB-i_3hcSRDbegQgTc4BpOKHGaNJO-KM

$ 15.00 ?
That's a good price for what the board offers, mini HDMI, CSI port, 512 MB and Wifi&Bluetooth. Personally i would add a 8 GB eMMC and try to keep the price below $ 20.00. Once you boot from eMMC you will never want to boot from SD card again.
BTW, Have you considered Banana Pi M2M? no HDMI but there is a MIPI DSI port to connect LCD panel, and i can say the 5" LCD is the best LCD i have tested so far, unfortunately i have damaged the LCD some how while porting it to M64. They are short on supply another sample but Nora Lee is kindly sending me another one when they are ready so i can finish all the tests, i have not tested it to the exhaustion nor did any extensive testing but there is no problem with heat and Wifi&BT works as expected and the board has been a nice surprise.
 
I have no idea about the price and availability.
 
 
 

Tks for some Armbian devlopers' feekback and good advice that is real SBC spirit to assist Banana Pi HW and SW progress. We improve HW in order to achieve max. performance by our customers' requirement as well as developers welcome that too. 
 
Happy to hear many developers give us positive comment and would like to support R2 development. Once we have new models, we'll notice sooner.
 
 
 
 

Tks for some Armbian devlopers' feekback and good advice that is real SBC spirit to assist Banana Pi HW and SW progress. We improve HW in order to achieve max. performance by our customers' requirement as well as developers welcome that too. 
 
Happy to hear many developers give us positive comment and would like to support R2 development. Once we have new models, we'll notice sooner.
 
 
 
 

Dear Johnny,
 
I appreciate it very much for your great effort on Banana Pi R2 development, I am the Banana Pi PM, we're working with MTK linux team for months. If you are interested to get a R2 new version sample, pls contact me (nora.sh.lee63@gmail.com). Any further advice will be welcome, we're making next version PCB this week.
 
Nora
Banana Pi PM
 
 

Dear Johnny,
 
I appreciate it very much for your great effort on Banana Pi R2 development, I am the Banana Pi PM, we're working with MTK linux team for months. If you are interested to get a R2 new version sample, pls contact me (nora.sh.lee63@gmail.com). Any further advice will be welcome, we're making next version PCB this week.
 
Nora
Banana Pi PM
 
 

Dear @lex,
 
If you need BPI M2+ and M3 samples as well as OV5640 and dual OV5640_8865 camera samples, I'll be glad to provide above models with you ASAP. 
 
Camera info:
https://bananapi.gitbooks.io/bpi-accessories/content/en/bpim3camera.html
 
Nora Lee
Banana Pi PM
nora.sh.lee63@gmail.com