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July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

NVIDIA launches smaller, mainstream Jetson T2000 and T3000 modules for Edge AI and robotics applications

NVIDIA has just launched the Jetson T2000 and T3000 “mainstream” modules as smaller and lower cost options to the Jetson T4000/T5000 modules introduced last year for Edge AI and robotics applications. The Jetson Thor T3000 and the industrial version IGX Thor T3000, which adds functional safety, both deliver up to 865 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute. They feature a 1536-core NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, an eight-core Neoverse Arm CPU, 32GB of LPDDR5X memory with 273GB/s bandwidth, and 25 GbE connectivity. The Jetson Thor T2000 delivers up to 400 TFLOPS of AI performance, features a 1024-core Blackwell GPU, 16GB LPDDR5 with 137GB/s bandwidth, and 10 GbE networking. Both are about half the size of the Jetson T4000/T5000 modules. Here’s a preliminary comparison between the Jetson Thor T2000, T3000, T4000, and T5000 modules. It’s preliminary because, as I write this article, NVIDIA has yet to provide the full specifications for the new T2000 and […]

July 15, 2026 by Debashis Das - 2 Comments

Bigme Hibreak Dual 2 – An Android 16 smartphone with 6.13-inch 80fps E-Ink and 5-inch LCD display (Crowdfunding)

Bigme has launched the Hibreak Dual 2, an Android 16 smartphone with a 6.13-inch 80fps E-Ink display on the front and a 5-inch LCD on the rear. Built around the MediaTek Dimensity 8300 processor and supports dual 5G connectivity, positioning it as an E-Ink smartphone with flagship-class hardware. The front E-Ink can be used for reading, writing, and general everyday use, whereas the LCD in the back serves as a conventional smartphone display for applications that require higher refresh rates and full-color output, like video gaming and navigation. This dual-screen setup allows users to switch between the two displays depending on the task. Bigme Hibreak Dual 2 specifications: SoC – MediaTek Dimensity 8300 CPU – Octa-core processor with 4x Arm Cortex-A715 and 4x Cortex-A510 GPU – Arm Mali-G615 VPU Video Encoding – H.264, HEVC Video Playback – H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1 AI accelerator – MediaTek NPU 780 Memory – 12GB […]

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 5 Comments

Reverse-engineering brings RK3576 NPU support to open-source Rocket driver for mainline Linux

Back in 2024, we noted that the open-source driver for RK3588’s NPU by Tomeu Vizoso delivered decent performance for object detection. Since then, good progress has been made, and it’s now known as the Rocket driver in mainline Linux. However, the Rockchip RK3576 SoC is not supported by the Rocket driver in mainline yet, despite sharing a similar NPU. The good news is that Ga Hing Woo has been working on mainline Linux support for the Rockchip RK3576 NPU using the Rocket driver stack and has tested the updates on the Radxa ROCK 4D running Linux 7.1-rc5. This required some serious reverse-engineering work due to hidden registers not documented in the TRM. Ga Hing Woo (also written as Jiaxing Hu) sent us an email explaining some of the challenges: Single int8 convolution now comes out byte-exact against a CPU reference on the open stack. Getting there meant reverse-engineering the compute […]

July 13, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

WisMesh Station Review – Telemetry, MQTT, and Grafana tested on a Raspberry Pi 4-based Meshtastic gateway

RAKwireless has sent us a sample of the WisMesh Station, a Meshtastic gateway and base station based on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, a WisMesh Pi HAT RAK6421 expansion board, a LoRa module, a GNSS module, all housed in a compact metal enclosure. It comes with meshtasticd preinstalled, making it ready to use right out of the box. Just unbox it, plug it in, and start using Meshtastic immediately. We’ll also use software packages for communication, data storage, and visualization, such as MQTT, Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana, mostly following RAKwireless’s user guide WisMesh Station is available in 2 models according to transmit power: the standard RAK8622 model that uses the RAK13300 LoRa module (Semtech SX1262 with 22 dBm transmit power), suitable for urban networks where nodes are close to each other, and the high-power RAK8623 (HP) model that uses the RAK13302 module (SX1262 + SKY66122 amplifier circuit with 30 […]

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 4 Comments

Beelink EQi review – Part 2: An Intel Core 3 304 “Wildcat Lake” mini PC tested with Windows 11 Pro

Beelink EQi Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 Windows 11 mini PC review

We’ve already checked out the specifications and hardware of the Beelink EQi Wildcat Lake mini PC in the first part of the review, with an unboxing and a teardown, before booting the mini PC into the pre-installed Windows 11 Pro for a first quick look. We’ve now had time to test the Intel Core 3 304 mini PC in more detail on Windows 11 Pro, so we’ll report our experience. The review includes feature testing, benchmark results, 4K and 8K YouTube video playback, 10GbE, 2.5GbE, and WiFi network performance evaluation, cooling performance, and measurement of fan noise and power consumption. Software Overview and Feature Testing After fully updating Windows 11 Pro and drivers to the latest version (excluding previews), I went to System > About window again. We still have a 1.50 GHz (base frequency) Intel Core 3 304 processor with 16GB 6400MT/s memory, and 834GB of storage from the […]

July 9, 2026July 8, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

Norik Systems introduces nRF9151-based USB Dongle for DECT NR+ deployments

Norik Systems has developed a compact USB dongle based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9151 SiP, mostly designed to work as a DECT NR+ child node or a USB-powered gateway. As a reminder, DECT NR+ is a non-cellular 5G standard for long-range low-power applications that works at 1.9 GHz and supports up to one million nodes through mesh, star, and point-to-point topologies. The Norik USB dongle enables developers to easily add DECT NR+ to gateways or child modes. Norik Systems DECT NR+ USB dongle specifications: Wireless System-in-Package – Nordic Semi nRF9151 CPU – Arm Cortex-M33 @ 64 MHz Memory – 256KB RAM Storage – 1MB flash Connectivity Multimode LTE-M/NB-IoT/NB-NTN modem with DECT NR+ support and GNSS. 700-2200 MHz LTE band support. Power Class 5 20 dBm Power Class 3 23 dBm 1.9 GHz and 915 MHz DECT NR+ band support (1, 2, 9, 22) Security – Arm TrustZone + Arm CryptoCell 310. […]

July 8, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 5 Comments

Rikomagic DS04 – An Android 14 4K digital signage player powered by Rockchip RK3576 SoC

Rikomagic DS04 4K digital signage player

Rikomagic DS04 is a new 4K digital signage player running Android 14 on a Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Cortex-A72/A53 processor paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. It looks to be a cost-down version of the Rockchip RK3588-powered Rikomagic DS08 8K digital signage player with many of the same ports and features, including two 4K-capable HDMI 2.1 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 jack, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, optional 4G LTE, and a few USB ports. Rikomagic DS04 specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3576 CPU 4x Cortex-A72 cores at 2.3GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 cores at 2.2GHz Arm Cortex-M0 MCU at 400MHz GPU – ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2, OpenCL up to 2.0, and Vulkan 1.1 NPU – 6 TOPS (INT8) AI accelerator with support for INT4/INT8/INT16/BF16/TF32 mixed operations. VPU Video Decoder – H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and AVS2 up to 8Kp30 or […]

July 8, 2026July 11, 2026 by Sponsored Post - No Comments

ACEMAGIC discounts its AMD Ryzen 7 mini PCs by up to 32% for a limited time (Sponsored)

ACEMAGIC has launched a promotion for two of its AMD Ryzen 7 mini PCs. The Matrix Mini K1 mini PC, powered by a Ryzen 7 7730U paired with 16GB LPDDR4X and a 512GB NVMe SSD, benefits from a 23% discount down to $386, and the company offers an even deeper 32% discount for the ACEMAGIC Retro X3 Ryzen 7 H 255 mini PC, shipping with 16GB LPDDR5 and a 1TB NVME SSD. ACEMAGICIAN Matrix Mini K1 Key features and specifications: SoC – AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8-core/16-thread CPU @ up to 4.5 GHz with AMD Radeon Graphics @ 2000 MHz; TDP: 15W System Memory – 16GB LPDDR4X Storage – 512GB NVMe SSD Video Output HDMI 2.0, DP 1.4b, USB-C with DisplayPort Alt mode Up to 3x 4K displays supported Audio – 3.5 mm audio jack Networking Ethernet RJ45 port WiFI and Bluetooth USB 4x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports 2x USB […]