News AMD Phoenix CPU brings palm-sized SBC to life for up to $329 — NexT-SBC packs 32GB LPDDR5-6400 and triple M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD slots

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A powerful new SBC that puts an AMD Phoenix chip in your hand is on its way to crowdfunding.

AMD Phoenix CPU brings palm-sized SBC to life for up to $329 — NexT-SBC packs 32GB LPDDR5-6400 and triple M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD slots : Read more

 

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The "SBC" nature of it isn't that interesting since it's a gutted mini-PC. Nice that it supports three M.2 drives, 2.5 GbE, and pricing seems reasonable at first glance.

 

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They really should implement a standard form factor, so that there's even a chance of half-decent case selection:

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Other options:

• mini-STX
• NUC (4x4)

My ODROID-H4 doesn't conform to a standard, but they kindly offered a mini-ITX adapter kit which I'm using to mount it in one of the mini-ITX cases designed to be used with an external PSU.

 

[DS426]

Neat. I'd like to see Asrock bring this to market as they already have a large line of NUC / 4X4 products, including AMD Ryzen embedded and non-embedded SKUs.

Been waiting for OnLogic to launch a new ML100 SBC.

ML100 Series Industrial Computers

The ML100 represents the next generation of small form factor industrial computing, packing Intel Broadwell processing into our toughest ever NUC enclosure.

www.onlogic.com

 

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They really should implement a standard form factor, so that there's even a chance of half-decent case selection:

Are there a variety of standard cases below mini-ITX size? I did a little research years ago but didn't see much. Pico-ITX strikes me as superior to the cramped "Pi form factor" (85.6mm × 56.5mm) and I'd like to see it gain adoption and cases.

Many mini-PCs don't cleanly fit into those form factors. I think many NUCs were around 100mm × 100mm, and palm-sized boxes like Chuwi LarkBox and its clones are around 61mm × 61mm (external dimensions).

 

[bit_user]

Are there a variety of standard cases below mini-ITX size? I did a little research years ago but didn't see much.

No, not on the retail market, at least. I've actually seen more boards in these form factors than cases, interestingly enough.

Sadly, all of the mini-STX boards I've seen have been socketed x86 (intel) boards. I think Intel is the one who put that standard forward, but I hope it's open and royalty-free for use by all.

Pico-ITX strikes me as superior to the cramped "Pi form factor" (85.6mm × 56.5mm) and I'd like to see it gain adoption and cases.

Yes. The Raspberry Pi was designed to be cheap, small, and versatile. Its port layout basically seems like they were just trying to pack as much as possible into the least perimeter, rather than what would make for a nice micro desktop.

 

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They really should implement a standard form factor, so that there's even a chance of half-decent case selection:

The standards have been there for "Quite a While", it's a matter of convincing these MoBo & Case designers to implement standards based parts design instead of doing "Proprietary Design".

That's why the LapTop situation is partly in the Non-Modular, Custom MoBo 99.999% of the time.

It's absolutely frustrating trying to deal with some of these smaller OEM vendors.

Everybody wants to be proprietary like Apple, and it pisses me off to no end.

Yes. The Raspberry Pi was designed to be cheap, small, and versatile. Its port layout basically seems like they were just trying to pack as much as possible into the least perimeter, rather than what would make for a nice micro desktop.

Sadly, most of Raspberry Pi seems to be doing their own case standards instead of using a existing standard.

 

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