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ArmSoM-Sige7 Becomes the First RK3588 Device Supported by openSUSE​

As embedded systems and open-source software continue to evolve, more and more developers and enthusiasts are expecting high-performance development boards and broad operating system support. In this context, ArmSoM-Sige7 has garnered attention in the market with its powerful hardware capabilities and extensive software compatibility. Excitingly, ArmSoM-Sige7 has now become the first RK3588 device supported by openSUSE, offering even more possibilities for developers.

Breakthrough Hardware Performance​

ArmSoM-Sige7 is equipped with Rockchip’s flagship SoC—RK3588. This chip adopts an eight-core architecture, supports up to 32GB of memory, and features a powerful GPU and NPU, making it suitable for a variety of use cases including AI inference, edge computing, 4K/8K media processing, and embedded development. Whether it's for enterprise solutions or personal DIY projects, Sige7 offers ample computational power.

In addition to the strong performance of RK3588, Sige7 supports a variety of expansion interfaces, including 2.5G Ethernet, USB 3.0, high-speed PCIe interfaces, and more, greatly expanding the design and application possibilities for developers.

A Strong Partnership with openSUSE​

As one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions, openSUSE is known for its stability, flexibility, and strong community support, making it a top choice for developers. The fact that Sige7 is the first RK3588 device to support openSUSE means that developers can take full advantage of openSUSE’s extensive software repositories and excellent hardware support, driving innovation in everything from basic development to advanced projects.

openSUSE provides developers with a feature-rich and highly stable platform, especially suited for developing, testing, and deploying professional applications. By combining Sige7 with openSUSE, users can strike the perfect balance between performance and stability.

Offering More Options for Developers​

For embedded developers and members of the open-source community, ArmSoM-Sige7’s openSUSE support not only broadens the board’s application scenarios but also demonstrates the potential of this development board in the open-source hardware space. Whether developers aim to build specific projects based on openSUSE or run stable server applications on this hardware platform, Sige7 is a reliable solution.

Driving the Development of the Open-Source Hardware Ecosystem​

As a company committed to advancing open-source hardware, ArmSoM has consistently provided powerful development boards and a supportive ecosystem for developers. Sige7 becoming the first RK3588 device supported by openSUSE is a significant step in ArmSoM's efforts to promote open-source hardware development.

Conclusion​

With the launch of ArmSoM-Sige7, developers no longer need to compromise between performance and operating system compatibility. The powerful performance of this development board combined with the compatibility of openSUSE brings developers a wider range of development possibilities. In the future, we look forward to seeing more developers and enterprises leverage Sige7 and openSUSE to create even more innovative and outstanding solutions.

ArmSoM is thrilled to announce that latest product Sige7 has successfully integrated the RK3588 processor, connecting the high-compute Hailo-8 development board via PCIe, and has achieved an astonishing 32TOPS compute power (RK3588 6TOPS + Hailo-8 26TOPS). This technological innovation milestone will bring unprecedented compute performance and application possibilities across industries.

Introduction​

Due to the increasing demand for edge computing in the age of digital transformation, ArmSom has introduced RK3588 processor in Sige7 and connected the high-compute Hailo-8 development board via PCIe to provide users with a powerful and efficient edge computing solution.

What is the ArmSoM Sige7 capable of?​

1. Forceful RK3588 Processor​

The RK3588 processor in Sige7 is ArmSoM’s latest generation high-performance processor with a multi-core architecture and excellent computing capabilities. Its advanced process technology and versatile hardware interfaces provide superior processing performance and flexibility to our product.

2. Hailo-8 High-Compute Development Board via PCIe​

By connecting the Hailo-8 high-compute development board via PCIe, Sige7 boosts the compute power to 32TOPS, bringing more powerful performance to users. Hailo-8 is an AI accelerator designed specifically for edge computing. Its unique architecture and efficient algorithms provide excellent AI processing capabilities to our product.

3. Multi-Scenario Application​

With the external Hailo-8 up to 32Tops, Sige7 can be widely used in multiple fields, easily handling tasks from image processing to object detection and speech recognition, creating more possibilities across industries.

Hailo-8 focuses on delivering high-performance deep learning inference solutions. Designed to meet the needs of various edge computing applications, Hailo-8 features low power consumption, high performance and small form factor.

Here are some key application scenarios of Hailo-8:

1. Smart Cameras and Surveillance Systems: Hailo-8 can be used in smart security cameras for real-time object detection, face recognition and behavior analysis. Its efficient inference enables more accurate scene analytics to improve security and efficiency.

2. Automated and Assisted Driving Systems: In automotive, Hailo-8 helps process complex perception tasks like road segmentation, pedestrian detection, traffic sign recognition, etc. Its edge compute capabilities significantly improve the real-time performance and efficiency of automated driving systems.

3. Smart IoT Devices: Hailo-8 can be embedded into various IoT devices including intelligent appliances, sensors, robots, etc to provide advanced deep learning inference capabilities for smart home, smart city, industrial IoT.

4. Edge Servers and Edge Platforms: Hailo-8 can also be integrated into edge servers and platforms to process large amounts of data generated at the edge. This helps improve the speed of data analytics and decision making while reducing reliance on the cloud.

5. Medical Imaging Analytics: In healthcare, Hailo-8 enables image analysis, medical image processing and diagnostic assistance. Its high performance and low power consumption make it suitable for portable medical devices and imaging systems.

6. AI Edge Gateways: Hailo-8 helps build AI edge gateways that connect sensors and devices, providing real-time analytics and processing of local data to ease the burden on cloud services.

In summary, Hailo-8 covers application scenarios across many fields that require deep learning inference on edge devices. Its high efficiency and low power characteristics enable outstanding performance for edge computing use cases.

Product Benchmarks and Success Stories​

The performance of Sige7 has been validated across industries, with highly positive customer feedback. The 32Tops computing power allows our product to excel at handling complex workloads, improving production efficiency and data processing speed.

1. Unprecedented AI Performance and Energy Efficiency​

Hailo-8 vs. Xavier NX & Orin Nano 4GB/8GB

2. Smaller Size, Lower Cost, Similar Performance​

Sige7 is 92mm × 62mm, more compact than the 100mm x 79mm Jetson Nano dev kit.

Sige7 costs almost half as much as the Jetson Nano.

3. Demo Case Study​

There is viedo show of Sige 7 with hailo-8,30-channel 1080p object detection,please follow our Bilibili channel for more details : ArmSoM

Technological Innovation and Future Outlook​

The success of Sige7 highlights ArmSoM’s technological innovation capabilities in edge computing.

We will continue to advance hardware technologies to provide users with more advanced solutions. We look forward to exploring more applications with customers and creating new possibilities in the digital era.

Conclusion​

With the launch of Sige7, ArmSoM has once again proved our leading position in hardware design and innovation. Featuring the RK3588 processor and external Hailo-8 high-compute development board, our product is not only eye-catching, but also brings endless possibilities to users.We hope Sige7 drives digital transformation through success across industries.

Recently, we are excited to launch an all-new single board computer (SBC）powered by the formidable RK3588 , delivering unparalleled computing performance and versatile application scenarios to users.

The release of this new product marks an important breakthrough in our technological innovation and product development, providing users with a superior computing experience.

Sige7 - Connecting Innovation, Infinite Possibilities

1. Powerful Performance of RK3588​

As the core of this SBC, the RK3588 not only utilizes advanced 8nm fabrication technology but also packs a powerful multi-core processor, offering users exceptional computing capabilities. It can handle multi-tasks from high-performance computing tasks or multi-threaded applications with ease, providing users with smooth and efficient experience.

As shown in the following RK3588 CPU Benchmark test data:

Super powerful computing performance, multi-core computing power surpasses Core I3

1.1. key parameter​

• SOC: Rockchip RK3588
• CPU: RK3588 Quad-core Cortex-A76@ 2.4GHz + Quad-core Cortex-A55@ 1.8GHz, 8nm process
• GPU: ARM Mali-G610 MP4
• NPU: computing power up to 6TOPs (INT8), supports INT4/INT8/INT16 mixed operations
• VPU/codec:
  • Hard decoding: 8K@60fps H.265/VP9/AVS2, 8K@30fps H.264 AVC/MVC, 4K@60fps AV1, 1080P@60fps MPEG-2/-1/VC-1/VP8
  • Hardcoded: 8K@30fps H.265/H.264
• RAM: 8GB/16GB/32GB (up to 32GB available) 64bit LPDDR4/LPDDR4x, default LPDDR4x 8GB
• Flash: 64GB/128GB eMMC, default eMMC 64GB
• Operating voltage: With wide range of input voltage, from 5V to 20V (voltage error ±5%)
• Working temperature: 0℃ ~ 70℃
• operating system:
  • Rockchip official support: Android 12.0, Debian11, Buildroot
  • Third-party support: Armbian, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Kylin OS
• PCB: 12-layer PCB board design
• weight:
• Size: 92mm × 62mm x 14.6mm

1.2. Hardware Specification​

2. Diverse Application Scenarios​

This SBC is not only a device with excellent performance, but also an extremely imaginative product suitable for DIY by geeky hobbyists.

ArmSoM-Sige7: AI+8K+Perception+Connectivity+Display, Building the Next Generation Flagship AIOT Platform

2.1. Sige7 (RK3588) 6TOPS Computing Power​

With 6 TOPS computing power, Sige7 can support mixed-precision operations including INT4/INT8/INT16/FP16. Its powerful compatibility can easily convert network models based on TensorFlow/MXNet/PyTorch/Caffe and other frameworks.

The computing power is sufficient to support embedded systems such as smart cameras, smart home devices and autonomous vehicles for real-time image processing and analysis. It can handle some lightweight AI tasks like speech recognition, image recognition and object detection.

2.2. Sige7 (RK3588) 8K Visual Feast​

Sige7 supports:

• Hardware Decode: 8K@60fps H.265/VP9/AVS2, 8K@30fps H.264 AVC/MVC, 4K@60fps AV1, 1080P@60fps MPEG-2/-1/VC-1/VP8
• Hardware Encode: 8K@30fps H.265 / H.264

Thanks to 8K video encode and decode technology,it brings the ultimate visual enjoyment with more content and finer details.

2.3. Abundant Interfaces of Sige7​

Sige7 can also serve as a RK3588 development board:

• Versatile and Universal: Considering the connection needs of different types of peripherals and sensors, rich interface types are provided, including digital input/output, analog input/output, communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C), USB, etc., meeting the needs of various application scenarios.

• Easy to Use: Clear labeling, color coding, physical shape design can reduce misoperations, improving development efficiency.

• Expandability: Fully compatible with Raspberry Pi 40pin, can serve as a substitute for Raspberry Pi 5.

• Debugging and Diagnostics Support: Debugging and diagnostics needs are considered in the design, including providing debug adb interface, LED indicators, serial debugging, etc., helping developers more easily locate and resolve issues.

As an embedded development kit, the reasonably designed interfaces of Sige7 balance multiple aspects of needs, providing convenient, flexible and reliable interfaces for developers to carry out hardware development and debugging more efficiently.

2.4. Sige7 Adapted to Various OS​

Sige7 is adapted to various systems, allowing developers to work in different development environments. Such flexibility helps meet the needs of different projects and applications.

3. Sophisticated Hardware and Appearance Design​

In addition to the powerful chip performance and diverse application scenarios, our design team also focuses on the overall appearance and hardware design of the SBC. The exquisite casing and compact structure allow it to stand out in various environments, while ensuring excellent heat dissipation to stabilize operation.

4. Open Source Support​

To better meet the needs of developers and technology enthusiasts, we are committed to providing open source support. Users can easily access and modify the system to customize an application environment tailored to their needs. This open design philosophy aims to inspire innovation and advance technology.

5. Conclusion​

The launch of this brand new SBC powered by RK3588 is not only a demonstration of our technological strength, but also a response to user needs.

We believe that through continuous technological innovation and product optimization, we will be able to provide users with more and better products to help them achieve greater success in different fields.

Thank you all for your support and attention. Let's usher in a new chapter of technology together!

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