Silvio Werner writes that Banana Pi has announced the BPI-CM7, a compact compute module intended as an alternative to Raspberry Pi compute modules. It is not a standalone board and requires a carrier board, which makes it well suited for ultra-compact custom devices that only need a few breakout interfaces. It uses an Allwinner H618 with four Cortex-A53 cores and an ARM Mali-G31 GPU, and pricing and availability have not been announced.
- 55 x 40 mm form factor with two 100-pin high-density connectors
- Confirmed variant has 2 GB LPDDR4 and 32 GB eMMC
- Integrated Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0
- Supports 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and USB 2.0
- Exposes GPIO, UART, SPI and draws power from 5 V
- 55 x 40 mm form factor with two 100-pin high-density connectors
- Confirmed variant has 2 GB LPDDR4 and 32 GB eMMC
- Integrated Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0
- Supports 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and USB 2.0
- Exposes GPIO, UART, SPI and draws power from 5 V
