For me anyway the RK3588 isn’t all that big of a loss anyway as the general purpose application area is sort of getting crowded with options from various vendors where Intel to AMD are also converging.
I am a big fan of reuse and my $85 NUC (i5-4250U) that had 8gb & 120gb SSD has been great buy and still on my todo list is to do something with the $25 coral mini pcie 4tops NPU.
Got a strip down, clean and new thermal paste and maybe the fan is noisier than new but comes in great for trying X86 only software.
So maybe not another general purpose application SBC, the Radxa Zero looks really interesting for multimedia as its video & audio capabilities look really great and fretting at the moment that uniqueness hasn’t been lost whilst opting for pads general purpose.
The RockPiS should of been a great audio SoC but dunno why the ADC is so noisy and the fixed PDM mic array via the POE hat sort loses all flexibility and cost effectiveness which has been a shame.
The A35 are great low power cpus but the way the memory was implemented it also ended up a bit slower than I expected.
The RK3568 PCIE3.0 1 ×2Lanes/2 ×1Lane@8Gbps is interesting seen as how the Sata enclosure picked up so much interest, the onboard 0.8t NPU is a bit limited but again with PCIe like the NUC you could add a Coral accelerator.
EdgeAI in terms of development and investment has overtaken CloudAI and maybe its about modules such as the Rockchip imageAi dsp chips or the Chipintelli voiceAi chips or NPU’s.
Adafruit look like they are going to add a 4 channel ADC to there line for use with a Pi.
Depends on the cost but thinking of just hooking up 2x ADC to a Radxa Zero, would be great if the noise on the RockPiS ADC was fixed though as that was the unique selling point of that SoC.
I didn’t see the release of the Radxa Zero so was a little late to the party, could be very interesting and waiting for a delivery.
