Radxa Orion O6N and Orange Pi 6 Plus are SBC models based on CIX P1 ARM SoC with features two M.2 Key-M sockets for storage and/or AI accelerators

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Radxa and Orange Pi announced Nano-ITX single-board computers based on CIX P1 12-core ARMv9 SoC with two M.2 (PCIe Gen4 x4) slots:

• https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/14/radxa-orion-o6n-smaller-cheaper-12-core-armv9-nano-itx-sbc-cix-p1-cd8160-soc/

• https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/15/orange-pi-6-plus-cix-p1-sbc-64gb-lpddr5-45-tops-ai-performance/

CIX P1 ARM SoC features a built-in 30 TOPS NPU (with the whole SoC claiming 45 TOPS), but most impressive might be the price, or?

"Radxa Orion O6N" and "Orange Pi 6 Plus". Each will be available in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB models but the 64GB variants are not yet for sale which is likely due to the high price of 16GB LPDDR5 memory chips needed to add 64GB of total RAM to these boards?).

Radxa Orion O6N 32GB RAM cost $199 on preorder, while Orange Pi 6 Plus is availabe for $223.90 with 16GB or $268.89 with 32GB RAM.

Those prices includes a heatsink with fan and a power adapter. A matching metal case is optional and cost $19.9 but is not yet available,

Note! "It’s a smaller and cheaper version of the Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard introduced at the end of last year. It offers most of the same features, but is equipped with a CD8160 SoC instead of a CD8180 with a slightly lower CPU frequency for the Cortex-A720 big cores (2.6 vs 2.8 GHz), more storage options, fewer display interfaces"

PS: Some software has previously been released for the previous Radxa Orion O6 all-in-one motherboard which uses the same CIX P1 SoC:

• https://gitlab.com/cix-linux/

  • https://forum.radxa.com/c/orion/o6

    • https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/03/software-progress-and-source-code-release-for-cix-p1-armv9-soc-and-orion-o6-motherboard/

    • https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/18/radxa-orion-o6-mini-itx-motherboard-is-powered-by-cix-p1-12-core-armv9-soc-with-a-30-tops-ai-accelerator/

    • https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/18/radxa-orion-o6-mini-itx-motherboard-is-powered-by-cix-p1-12-core-armv9-soc-with-a-30-tops-ai-accelerator/

    • https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/18/radxa-orion-o6-mini-itx-motherboard-is-powered-by-cix-p1-12-core-armv9-soc-with-a-30-tops-ai-accelerator/