Brad Linder<p><strong>Lilbits: Fedora 41 for Apple Silicon, NVIDIA’s new $249 AI dev kit, and Android 16 DP2</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.</p>NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit<p><strong><a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NVIDIA Unveils Its Most Affordable Generative AI Supercomputer [NVIDIA]</a></strong></p><p><em>The <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/nano-super-developer-kit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super</a> is a $249 dev kit (module + carrier board) with up to 67 TOPS AI performance. It’s half the prices of the <a href="https://liliputing.com/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-compute-module-brings-up-to-80x-speed-boost-coming-in-january-for-199-and-up/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previous-gen model</a>, while offering 70% more AI performance and 50% more memory bandwidth.</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/18/radxa-orion-o6-mini-itx-motherboard-is-powered-by-cix-p1-12-core-armv9-soc-with-a-30-tops-ai-accelerator/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Radxa Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard is powered by Cix P1 12-core Armv9 SoC with a 30 TOPS AI accelerator [CNX Software]</a></strong></p><p><em>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 <a href="https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Orion 06 board</a> 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 <a href="https://fave.co/4gcQx3j" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ARACE</a> or <a href="https://fave.co/3BDsbke" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AliExpress</a> for about $200 and up. </em></p><p><strong><a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/second-developer-preview-android16.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Second Developer Preview of Android 16 [Android Developers Blog]</a></strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/exclusive-mediatek-modem-pixel-10-3507964/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google picks a MediaTek modem for the Pixel 10 series [Android Authority]</a></strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-41-is-now-available/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is now available [Fedora Magazine]</a></strong></p><p><em>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. 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