Polish manufacturer EVEO has created a single board computer with the same form factor as the Raspberry Pi 3B. The big difference with this well known mini PC is that the Urve Board Pi has a Rockchip soc and an M.2 slot, among other things.

the Urve Council From the Polish manufacturer EVEO for sale in the company’s online store. The Urve board has exactly the same form factor as the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+, although there is an additional button cell battery on board. This allows the device to, among other things, keep track of the time when it is off.

In addition, the device According to specifications M.2 connection for a solid-state drive, though there’s 8GB of eMMC memory in the single-board computer. The Urve Board Pi also supports a micro SD card. The soc of the device is also different from the Broadcom BCM 2837 soc of the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3B; Rockchip RK3566 is a quad core chipset with four Cortex A55 cores and a maximum speed of 1.8GHz. The device also has 2GB of Lpddr4 memory, Mali G52 GPU and maximum support for 4K displays at 60Hz.

The four USB-A ports are divided into two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports. There is also a USB-C connection for power supply. Additionally, there is HDMI 2.0 connectivity and a gigabit ethernet port on the device. There are also two pins for adding PoE. The single-board computer also supports Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2. The device is running Android 11 or Debian 11. The price of the Urve Board Pi is unknown, but the hardware is unknown in various online stores For 84 euros.