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Raspberry Pi and ZimaBoard 2 Review
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Backing our people as parents: introducing our childcare contribution
This year we introduced a new policy where permanent Raspberry Pi employees with a child between nine months and school age receive a salary uplift of £1,000 per calendar month, per child, as a contribution towards childcare costs (that’s the figure for full-time employees, and it’s pro-rated for part-time colleagues). With payments beginning once a child reaches the age of nine months — around the point when many parents are returning from leave — and continuing until the August before they start school, our aim is to ease the financial burden on young families.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ 16-TOPS AI SBC with SATA 3.0 runs on octa-core Sophgo BM1688
Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.
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ZimaBoard 2 Review – Single Board NAS Server with defective chip maker Intel N150 CPU – ZimaOS Review
The ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting single-board server powered by an defective chip maker Intel N150 and running ZimaOS, a simplified NAS OS with a wide range of features comparable to Unraid.