Lilbits: Fedora 41 for Apple Silicon, NVIDIA’s new $249 AI dev kit, and Android 16 DP2

Written on 12/18/2024
Brad Linder

NVIDIA’s latest Jetson platform for AI development is more powerful than its predecessor, but costs half as much. Radxa has launched a new motherboard for folks that want a powerful ARM-based processor in a mini ITX form-factor. There’s a new build of Fedora available for Macs with Apple Silicon. And Google has released another developer preview of the next version of Android.

Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit

NVIDIA Unveils Its Most Affordable Generative AI Supercomputer [NVIDIA]

The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super is a $249 dev kit (module + carrier board) with up to 67 TOPS AI performance. It’s half the prices of the previous-gen model, while offering 70% more AI performance and 50% more memory bandwidth.

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Radxa Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard is powered by Cix P1 12-core Armv9 SoC with a 30 TOPS AI accelerator [CNX Software]

This 170 x 170mm (6.7″ x 6.7″) board features a Qualcomm 8cs Gen 3 processor four 2.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A720 CPU cores, four more at 2.4 GHz, and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A520 cores. The Orion 06 board also has Immortalis-G720 graphics and a 30 TOPS AI accelerator, up to 64GB of RAM, two 5 Gb Ethernet ports, a PCIe 4.0 x4 connector for storage, a PCIe x16 slot, and an M.2 E-Key for a wireless card, among other things. The board is available from ARACE or AliExpress for about $200 and up. 

The Second Developer Preview of Android 16 [Android Developers Blog]

Android 16 Developer Preview 2 is now available, with performance and battery life improvements as well as new developer APIs. It’s available for Google Pixel 6 and later devices.

Google picks a MediaTek modem for the Pixel 10 series [Android Authority]

Google’s recent smartphones ship with Tensor processors designed in-house by Google, but they use modems designed by Samsung. It looks like next year’s Pixel 10 could ship with a MediaTek T900 modem instead.

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is now available [Fedora Magazine]

The latest release brings Fedora 41 to Macs with Apple Silicon. It includes support for x86-64 emulation and Vulkan 1.4 graphics, making it possible to play some games on Apple Silicon. Keep in mind that not all hardware is supported yet – microphone support is still a work in progress on all Macs with M series processors, a bunch of features aren’t working on systems with M3 chips yet, and M4 isn’t fully supporter yet either.

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