RK3399 Raspberry Pi clone will launch at $39
Radxa has posted specs for a $39 and up, community backed “Rock Pi” Raspberry Pi lookalike with a Rockchip RK3399, USB 3.0, M.2, HDMI 2.0, and native GbE, plus optional WiFi, BT, and PoE.
Radxa is prepping a Raspberry Pi pseudo clone called the Rock Pi that runs Linux or Android on a hexa-core Rockchip RK3399 SoC. It joins the RK3399-based NanoPi M4 in closely matching the RPi 3 layout, and it appears it may be the most affordable RK3399 based SBC yet, starting at $39 with 1GB RAM.
Many other RK3399 based SBCs have the same size and 40-pin connector as the Pi, but with different layouts. These include the new Khadas Edge-V, the Renegade Elite, and several other boards found in our 2018 open-spec SBC roundup. Tom Cubie, who started Cubieboards.org before moving to Radxa, informed me of the upcoming Rock Pi a month ago. However, I first saw the specs today on a revised version of the Single Board Computer Database (“board-DB”), now hosted on Hackerboards. As some of you may recall, LinuxGizmos switched to the Hackerboards.com domain for a year before switching back.
