Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 (Model A) Single Board Computer
takyon writes:
Pine64 unveils Quartz64 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3566 SoC
We may just have written about Geniatech RK3566/RK3568 development board, but as expected, Pine64 has now unveiled more details about Quartz64 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3566 SoC.
As we'll see below, the design is very similar to RK3399 based RockPro64, but the new model adds a native SATA 3.0 port, an integrated battery charging circuitry, an ePD port for e-Ink displays, and supports more memory with up to 8GB LPDDR4 RAM.
[...] It's nice to have SATA, but as I understand it, the board relies on one of the multi-PHY Interfaces from RK3566 processor with SATA and USB 3.0 being multiplexed, meaning you can use SATA 3.0 if you don't use USB 3.0, and use USB 3.0 if you don't use SATA.
Pine64 is also working on a ~$15 RISC-V single board computer, using the XuanTie C906.
Pine64 Blog - February Update: Show and Tell.
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