Anbernic's teased RG 55G1 looks set to be its first Snapdragon handheld, bringing Adreno GPUs and mature open-source Turnip drivers that make Wine-based Windows emulation far more viable.
Rockchip's new RK3539 quad-A55 SoC adds 4K AV1 decoding, HDMI 2.1, and gigabit Ethernet, debuting in the HS89 T15 Android 14 TV stick starting around $34.
SteamOS 3.8 hits stable with the Linux 6.16 kernel, KDE Plasma 6.4, Wayland by default, the LAVD scheduler, and initial support for Valve's Steam Machine.
Gigabyte's new BRIX mini PCs run Intel Panther Lake chips up to a 16-core Core Ultra 9, with 128GB RAM, dual M.2 slots, PCIe 5.0, and WiFi 7 in a tiny chassis.
Orange Pi crams an octa-core Allwinner A733 and up to 16GB of LPDDR5 into a Raspberry Pi Zero footprint, with a 10 Gbps USB port and about 4x a Pi Zero 2 W's multi-core grunt.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
The octa-core Zhihe A210 ships RVA23-compliant with a 12 TOPS NPU and a Debian-ready SDK, landing on a SO-DIMM dev kit starting around $200.
AAEON's UP WCL packs Intel Wildcat Lake silicon onto a Raspberry Pi-sized board, with up to 24GB LPDDR5, 2.5 GbE, and Xe3 graphics already supported in Linux 6.17 and Mesa.
Commodore's retro flip phone runs Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS and blocks browsers and social media at the system level, even cutting off sideloaded apps like TikTok at the DNS layer.
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini PC packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB of unified LPDDR5x at 256GB/s, and 126 TOPS into a 1.2 kg box that runs large local LLMs on Linux.
The Orange Pi 6 crams a 12-core CIX P1 SoC, up to 24GB LPDDR5, dual NVMe slots, and 45 TOPS of AI compute into a 90mm board with Ubuntu 26.04 support.
The MINIX N304-AI is one of the first mini PCs on Intel's Core 3 N304, a Wildcat Lake chip that adds a Performance core to the budget class and already has Linux 6.17 driver support.
Plasma 6.7 lets HDR and ICC color management run at once, debuts the Union CSS theming system, and stands as KDE's last desktop release to ship an X11 session.
FreeBSD 15.1 rebases its iwlwifi and other LinuxKPI wireless drivers on Linux 7.0 and adds a boot-time kernel scheduler switch, with arm64 and pkg-managed base images.
The ONEXPLAYER X2 Mini Pro pairs an AMD Strix Halo chip and up to 64GB of unified memory in an 8.8 inch AMOLED handheld, making it a strong fit for Linux gaming and local LLMs.
LILYGO's T-Echo Lite Kit brings an nRF52840, SX1262 LoRa radio, e-paper display, and a detachable 5x4 keyboard to off-grid mesh messaging.
