FydeOS Developers Unveil the XpressReal T3, a Radxa ZERO Spin-Off Designed for openFyde

The developers behind FydeOS, a Chromium OS-based operating system, have announced a Raspberry Pi Zero-style single-board computer built around the Realtek RTD1619B system-on-chip and designed in partnership with Radxa and Realtek: the XpressReal T3.

"XpressReal is a family of single-board computers developed in collaboration between Fyde Innovations, Radxa, and Realtek," Fyde Innovations explains. "XpressReal T3 is the first product in the family — a small form factor high performance single board computer powered by the Realtek RTD1619B, which runs FydeOS/openFyde and Linux! Engineered for flexibility, it's the perfect companion for FydeOS Enterprise Kiosk solutions and beyond."

The Raspberry Pi Zero-style board, brought to our attention by Linux Gizmos, is built atop Radxa's ZERO family — but unlike the company's existing range, which are powered by Amlogic or Rockchip processors, features the Realtek RTD1619B, giving it four Arm Cortex-A55 cores running at up to 1.7GHz, a Mali-G57 MP1 graphics processor, and a neural coprocessor for on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) workloads delivering a claimed 1.6 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute. This is paired with 4GB of LPDDR4 memory.

The board includes a single HDMI 2.1a video output, capable of 4k60, plus a MIPI Display Serial Interface, a USB 3.2 Gen. 1 Type-C port plus a full-size USB 2.0 Type-A port, a wired gigabit Ethernet connection, on-board Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4 radios, and a mini-PCI Express (mPCIe) slot suitable for an optional cellular module. The Raspberry Pi-style general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header common to Radxa's ZERO range, complete with colour-coding, is also present.

Storage is handled thanks to an M.2 slot suitable for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) storage and a microSD Card slot — but there's also 32GB of eMMC storage on-board, which comes with the open-source version of the FydeOS Chromium OS-based operating system pre-installed. For those who would prefer a more traditional Linux, there's claimed support for Debian and builds made using the Yocto Project as well as an unspecified version of Google's Android mobile platform.

More information on the XpressReal T3 is available on the official website; the board itself can be purchased on the Made for FydeOS website at £44.44 (around $60.)