I stumbled upon this board:
- RK3568 quad core A55 "up to 2GHz"
- 2 to 8GB LPDDR4
- 16 to 128 MB EMMC
- "Mali-G52 2EE" - I don't care enough to google it.
- LVDS, MIPI, HDMI, VGA (why?!), backlight control
- Mic-In, Headphones-Out, "6W amplifier"
- 6 gigabit ethernet ports, there is a Realtek logo on one of the chips.
- "Wifi6 onboard" - Doesn't say what chip.
- 1x mPCIe (but the CPU heatsink seems to be partially covering the slot space)
- 1x mSATA
- 4x SATA3, I can barely see a jmicron logo on a chip near the ports
- 4x USB3 + 4x USB2 external ports
- 7x USB2 internal ports - I can count 8+1
- 1x USB-OTG - I can't see an external connector
- 6x UART - One of them looks like RS232 admin port (ethernet-like port) and RS485 is mentioned, but that's probably an optional addon converter board.
- RTC with battery
- I2C, CAN-bus, chassis intrusion, fan, GPIO, SIM slot, various other connectors
Basic version (2GB RAM) is cheaper than all Banana Pi R-series. Top version (8GB) is more expensive than R4.
I like the fact that is has miniPCIe, not M.2 like Banana R4. It means I could install an old Atheros card with rock-solid ath9k driver for 2.4G wifi.
So, it looks like a very promising all-in-one router + 4xHDD NAS with ZFS + webserver + TOR bridge + mediaplayer + anything else we may dream about.
How hard could it be to add OpenWrt support for this board?