AAEON, a Taiwanese maker of commercial computer systems and an affiliate firm of Asus, has revealed the UP Xtreme i12 (opens in new tab) developer board, a curious mixture of an Alder Lake processor with a 40-pin GPIO connector somewhat much like that seen on Raspberry Pi (opens in new tab) boards, and is allegedly suitable with Raspberry Pi HATs.
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At the very least, that’s the declare. Compatibility will likely be a combination of {hardware} and software program help, and there is a checklist of examined HATs on GitHub (opens in new tab), together with some from Adafruit and PiFace. The examined HATs all seem like I2C and SPI based mostly gadgets. You’ll be able to add screens, accelerometers, stepper motor management, and Grove sensors by way of these spiky pins. It isn’t inconceivable to make use of one other HAT with this or different SBCs, however you will have to do numerous work port libraries and code to make it work.
Elsewhere, the board is a extra standard Intel-based design, with a selection of Twelfth-gen P-series processors all the best way from Celeron to i7 with Intel UHD or Iris Xe graphics. As much as 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM may be specified, and there is a 2.5Gb Ethernet port, one other gigabit port, two PCIe 4.0 M.2 sockets plus a SATA 3 port, USB 4, 3 and a pair of, full-size DisplayPort and HDMI connectors (with further shows pushed from USB-C and Embedded DisplayPort, for a complete of 4 4K/60 screens), headphone socket, and front-panel connectors for placing it in a case.
Elective modules add Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and 5G connectivity. Energy comes by way of a DC enter, and it might settle for feeds from 12V to 36V. The board comes with energetic cooling, and whereas a passively cooled case, the UP Xtreme i12 Edge (opens in new tab), can also be listed, together with bundles together with energy provides and cables, it’s not out there but. The board runs Home windows or Ubuntu, with Yocto help coming. As that is an x86 based mostly board you’re free to decide on your individual working system.
The board isn’t but exhibiting on the AAEON e-shop, however the earlier model, the UP Xtreme i11 (opens in new tab), begins from $299.