First of all thank you everybody for reading and commenting! I want to address some of the comments I got regarding the article:

- xyz vendor is not covered: For this there is a simple answer, I don't have the hardware so I can't make a fair judgement when reporting about it. I don't want to be another reporter of basic benchmark scores & 1080P Youtube playback but actually show off the hardware capabilties with the right software. Hopefully this will be possible with more in the future as this project grows

- This is only one sector of the space why don't you have micro controllers or x86: While I want to cover all aspects of the space I am not an embedded engineer. I started during covid with the goal to replace my X86 homelab server with an ARM one to save power and got deeper into the rabbit hole until I ended up maintaining some boards and doing some Debian/Ubuntu based bring ups in my freetime. This led to me wanting to have one place to share my findings along the way and document things that might leave one stranded in the world of Yocto/U-Boot/Linux Kernel/Device-Trees/etc. and I created sbcwiki.com, not only for me to share my findings but for others to contribute with simple markdown files to the GitHub repo too.

The biggest problem for me with Raspberry Pi alternatives is the Linux support. Given the fact that getting mainline support is hard & long, I like the approach RPi has taken, to fork the kernel, add support for most parts of the SoC, upstream it and rebase the fork regularly. And I can still use my RPi model B with the latest OS they release. For example, I bought RK3588-based board and the officially supported kernel version is 6.1. I know that Collabora and other people are working hard to have upstream support [1], but it will take time until all IPs are covered. Is there any alternative that has Linux support comparable to Raspberry Pi?

[1] https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...

I have dabbled in model edge processing like Efficientnet and YOLO on Hailo platform.

Raspberry Pi and its AI HAT+ seems to be the most accessible, often others can easily pick it up the basics and get up and running without much trouble even without experience.

I wonder if there is any alternative? Raspberry Pi 5 + the 26 TOPS HAT+ is not cheap.

Does any SBC offer SFP+ or SFP28?

I don't see any option to sort by network speed or network chip

I'm not sure that the RK3688 and a big chunk of the article spent on its specs belongs in a "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview" given that it's due sometime in 2026. I'm sure it's going to be great but I suggest it belongs to a future state.

On the other hand, CIX have been putting actual Arm v9 hardware in developers' hands for some time.

I am working with Rockchip rv1106 which has 1 TOPS NPU but also some cool DSP features which has helped me do very interesting things.

For my project I am making a SLAM/VIO using it, see video: https://x.com/_asadmemon/status/1977737626951041225

Surprisingly no mention of ESP soc’s. Mane esp boards easily replace both arduino and raspberry pi zero projects with a single board.

A lot of the chips have started including NPUs. How are applications supposed to access that acceleration now with embedded Linux? Does linux handle this for you, or do you need to leverage some specific drivers like CUDA?

Anything new happening on the risc-v side of things? Last I heard there were some micro-itx boards at around rpi4 speed but haven’t heard much since.

The dragon one sounds interesting. mainline support, cheap price point and npu/gpu would be great