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The daughtercard approach means you can adapt an Nvidia Jetson or Raspberry Pi CM4, so that's nice. Though I can imagine having a daughtercard go bad and then r
by geerlingguy 5y ago
The daughtercard approach means you can adapt an Nvidia Jetson or Raspberry Pi CM4, so that's nice. Though I can imagine having a daughtercard go bad and then replacements being hard to find.
The key to everything is price. This board offers full ATX PSU support (and works with PicoPSUs), and is in the Mini ITX form factor, with a full managed Ethernet switch (so you could segregate Pis on different VLANs, that sort of thing), along with some PCI express lanes exposed for different purposes (4G/5G modules, SATA, etc.), so it will be interesting to see how it can be used.
One tough thing is going from 7 modules on the CM3+ board to 4 modules on this board, but without that tradeoff they wouldn't have been able to fit all the extra features on the board, nor have adequate space for cooling the Pis/Jetsons, which do get considerably hotter than the older CM generations.