ROCK3 Model C board starts at $39.00
The ethernet port supports PoE (Power-over-Ethernet), with an additional PoE HAT. Radxa also mentions that this board is mechanically compatible with “many of the existing Raspberry Pi 4 accessories”.
The Getting Started page indicates that the Rock 3 Model C can boot up from the eMMC module or from a microSD card. The Downloads page currently lists images (Pre-release) for Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Server 20.04.
Also: ROCK 3C SBC – A $39+ Raspberry Pi 3 lookalike with Rockchip RK3566 AI SoC, M.2 NVMe SSD support
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Radxa ROCK 3 Model C: New single-board computer debuts from US$39
Radxa has launched the ROCK 3 Model C, a single-board computer (SBC) powered by the Rockchip RK3566, an SoC with four ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores clocked at 1.6 GHz, a Mali-G52 GPU and an NPU that is capable of delivering up to 0.8 TOPS of AI performance. Radxa complements the Rockchip RK3566 with LPDDR4 RAM, which will be available in 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB flavours. While the SBC lacks built-in storage, it has a microSD card reader, an M.2 2230 slot and an optional eMMC module.
Additionally, the ROCK 3 Model C has a 40-pin GPIO header, Gigabit Ethernet with optional PoE and an HDMI 2.0 port, among other I/O. For reference, although the SBC has four USB Type-A ports, only one supports the USB 3.0 standard. Moreover, the 85 x 56 mm board supports Android 11, Radxa Debian, Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Server 20.04.