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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jeff Butts

Teardown finally reveals the secretive Huawei chip powering Raspberry Pi competitor — Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro SBC tested

The Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro.

The Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro development board, which was announced back in May, has always had a secret — we knew the Raspberry Pi alternative had a 64-bit quad-core Arm processor, but little else was certain because Huawei and OrangePi had refused to post the type of processor used in the device. Thanks to a recent teardown, a few more facts have been revealed.

Orange Pi removed all of the board’s markings, and Huawei doesn’t disclose the architecture and GPU behind the Kunpeng Pro. This is, of course, a common practice for the Chinese chipmaker as it tries to evade U.S. export restrictions by avoiding prying Western eyes.

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