It’s been a while since I last asked about the possibility of a Khadas Edge 3 board after learning about the RK3688 chipset. All of the marketing from Khadas lately has been solely for Mind. Are there any new Khadas SBCs coming, or has SBC development stopped now and everything being focussed on Mind?
Hello, Sir or Madam,
KHADAS started with SBCs and the maker spirit is in our DNA—we’re not going anywhere. We’ve simply become a bit more cautious; we haven’t stopped moving forward, and we look forward to introducing our upcoming new products to you.
Recently, we had an open discussion with Rockchip: the RK3688 is still being designed and may be released in one to two years, while the RK3588 remains Rockchip’s flagship chip for now.
Thanks for keeping an eye on us, and hit us up anytime with your brilliant ideas!
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That was all very cleverly answered without answering anything - do you practice politics, by chance 
Can we expect any new Khadas SBCs in the near to medium term? In particular, a continuation of the Edge series? These, in my experience, are the best SBCs you offer from an out-of-the-box perspective in terms of price and performance. I’d very much be interested in buying an Edge 3 board if it were a respectable successor in hardware specifications.
Or even a version of the Edge 2 with more TOPS (perhaps multiple NPUs working together) and 32GB/64GB of RAM (possibly more given the newer power-hungry AI PCs releasing with up to 128GB RAM) - I think there would definitely be buyers for such SBC form-factor powerhouses!
Or even an expansion board containing more NPUs or RAM or storage. Though I have no idea how this would be technically possible. But it would be awesome!
Thank you for the suggestion—adding more NPUs or expanding RAM is indeed a brilliant idea. Have you ever considered building yourself a supercomputer via clustering? I’d also like to recommend RK’s coprocessor accelerator cards; both approaches might solve the problem. If we limit ourselves to boosting NPUs on a single SBC, we probably have to wait for a chip upgrade—namely, the RK3688.
Unfortunately, the release date of the RK3688 is still completely uncertain; Rockchip hasn’t even finished the design, and we have no idea how far along they are. That said, KHADAS’s new SBC is already on the drawing board. 
Think it’s safe to say there will be no more new Khadas SBCs. It’s all about Mind now. I’m not remotely interested in Mind. I’d rather see improved iterations of Edge and Vim boards.
Hello @_brym
I completely understand why it might look that way from the outside, but I can assure you that SBCs are still very much in our DNA.
While we have put a lot of energy into the Mind lineup recently, we haven’t forgotten about the Edge and VIM series.
I can’t share specific details or specs just yet (as much as I’d love to!), but please know that we are definitely not abandoning the SBC community. Stay tuned!
Hi Sir,
We will be heading to Europe for the embedded world exhibition. If any of you are in Europe, you can get the latest information on our new products at the show!
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I will be, but in a different country. Very much looking forward to hearing about your new SBC developments though. I’m really hoping to see new Edge and VIM boards with more RAM and a competitive TOPS count. Many board manufacturers keep claiming 32gb RAM at the top end but never actually deliver when it comes to release. So something with 32gb would be the icing on the cake.
Current available SoCs are barely able to utilize the most out of their memory, eg. Edge2’s RK3588S with 16GB is on the edge, as running normal applications won’t be able to more than 8 GB of RAM before the CPU/GPU bottlenecks, and if running AI models, those can maybe make the most out of 16GB completely but the NPU will be the bottleneck.
Perhaps a new SoC release such as the RK3688 or other can reduce the bottleneck and a 32GB board will be reasonable 
Agreed, and that’s where I push my Khadas SoCs the most; making them run tiny LLMs. I think I managed to make the Vim4 run llama 3.2 3b - sometimes without even crashing 
But I definitely get the most out of my Edge 2, serving as my main prod server. I run multiple websites and web services from it, ranging from AI-assisted in their development to AI-embedded applications. Current uptime is 62 days. I had to restart a couple of months ago. But it’s not uncommon for it to run for more than a year uninterrupted - still being the awesome powerhouse of a workhorse that it is!
So yes, perhaps RK3688 products will ship with more ram. But the 3688 chip doesn’t even have a formal release date yet. Only the specs were formally released.
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Since last year until now, we have had multiple communications with Rockchip regarding the RK3688, but we have not yet received accurate information on its release timeline or specifications.