# OrangePi O1 SBC ships with 16-TOPS Sophgo BM1688, RISC-V coprocessor, SATA 3.0

> **Key takeaway:** The OrangePi O1 brings a hybrid Arm-RISC-V AI accelerator to market with mainline-friendly I/O including SATA 3.0 and PCIe 3.0 NVMe, targeting edge LLM and computer-vision workloads.

**Published:** 2026-11-01T22:29:22+00:00 
**Source:** LinuxGizmos 
**Category:** open-hardware 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/orangepi-o1-sbc-ships-with-16-tops-sophgo-bm1688-risc-v-copr.html 

## Summary
Orange Pi has released the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm single-board computer built around the Sophgo BM1688 SoC. The board combines eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores at 1.65GHz with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor at 1.2GHz and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory. Storage options span eMMC modules up to 128GB, SPI flash, microSD, M.2 M-Key PCIe 3.0 NVMe, and notably a SATA 3.0 interface uncommon on compact SBCs.

The BM1688's media pipeline supports H.264/H.265 decode of sixteen 1080p30 streams and encode of ten, plus JPEG processing at 480 1080p frames per second. Imaging capabilities include dual 8MP30 HDR or 8K15 SDR input with hardware 360-degree stitching and fisheye dewarping. Networking comprises dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and an M.2 B-Key slot for 4G/5G modems. The board is now available for purchase starting at $304.40 for the 8GB model.

## BM1688 architecture and OrangePi O1 I/O breakdown
- **Hybrid CPU architecture:** The BM1688 pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores at 1.65GHz with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor at 1.2GHz, offering a big-little-like split between application processing and real-time or offload tasks.
- **TPU performance tiers:** Sophgo rates the integrated TPU at 32 TOPS INT4, 16 TOPS INT8, 4.0 TFLOPS FP16/BF16, and 0.5 TFLOPS FP32, with framework support for Caffe, PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and MXNet.
- **Storage flexibility:** The board uniquely combines M.2 M-Key PCIe 3.0 NVMe with a dedicated SATA 3.0 interface, alongside optional eMMC (16-128GB), SPI flash (128-256Mb), and microSD up to 128GB; eMMC and SPI flash are mutually exclusive.
- **Video and imaging pipeline:** Hardware acceleration handles 16x 1080p30 H.264/H.265 decode streams, 10x encode streams, JPEG at 480 1080p fps, dual 8MP30 HDR camera input, and lens-distortion correction with 360-degree stitching.
- **Expansion and connectivity:** Dual GbE via YT8531C PHYs, Wi-Fi 6E/Bluetooth 5.3 BLE, M.2 B-Key cellular, HDMI 2.0 4K60, MIPI-DSI and dual MIPI-CSI, two CAN buses, RS485, and a 26-pin GPIO header with UART, I2C, SPI, and PWM.

## Why it matters
The OrangePi O1 enters a crowded edge-AI SBC market with a rare combination of SATA 3.0 and PCIe 3.0 NVMe, making it viable for network-attached storage or logging applications alongside inference workloads. Its RISC-V coprocessor and explicit support for local LLM deployment (Gemma-2B, Qwen1.5-1.8B, Llama2-7B, ChatGLM3-6B) reflect growing demand for offline AI at the edge, though the lack of stated mainline Linux or U-Boot status leaves software support questions for upstream developers and distribution maintainers to resolve.