Two new developer boards built around the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V processor are bringing serious AI acceleration to the single-board computer market. Both the Banana Pi BPI-SM10 and the Radxa C200 Orin Developer Kit use a modular compute-on-module design, pairing a RAM-stick-sized SoM with a carrier board that handles I/O and power. The K3 chip itself is an octa-core 2.4 GHz processor compliant with the RVA23 RISC-V profile, and it integrates an 8-core AI accelerator rated at up to 60 TOPS. Both boards support up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory, and the companies claim the system can run 30-billion-parameter AI models at 10 tokens per second while drawing between 18 and 35 watts.

The carrier board measures 103 x 90.5 x 35 mm (4.06 x 3.56 x 1.38 inches) including the SoM, fan, and feet, and it offers a healthy spread of connectivity. There are two M.2 slots (one PCIe Gen 4 x4 and one PCIe Gen 4 x2), four USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, DisplayPort 1.2 output, Gigabit Ethernet, two MIPI-CSI camera interfaces, and a 40-pin expansion header. That 40-pin GPIO header should feel familiar to anyone coming from Raspberry Pi territory, which seems intentional given the target audience of developers exploring RISC-V and edge AI workloads.

Banana Pi has not yet announced pricing for the BPI-SM10, but the Radxa C200 Orin Developer Kit with 8GB of RAM is available at $499 (€460). Banana Pi is also working on a K3 Pico-ITX board that consolidates everything onto a single 6.4 x 6.4 cm (2.5 x 2.5 inch) board with extras like an eDP connector, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, an RTC battery connector, and a front panel header. That Pico-ITX design appears to be a SpacemiT reference platform, so similar boards from other manufacturers are likely on the horizon as the RISC-V ecosystem around the K3 continues to expand. On the software side, SpacemiT has been actively upstreaming K3 support into the mainline Linux kernel, with peripheral drivers including Ethernet, I2C, GPIO, and UART tracked in the company's linux-k3 repository, and Canonical announced in February 2026 that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will target K3 platforms. That SoC-level kernel investment is an encouraging signal for open-source developers, though board-specific enablement for the BPI-SM10 and C200 Orin will depend on vendor bootloader and driver availability as both products reach the community.