Something cool I just found is the Radxa Orion O6 (ITX motherboard with Arm SoC):
I’ve never heard of the company who made the SoC: Cix CD8180 SoC
12 Arm cores, 4 big A-720, 4 medium A-720, 4 little A-520
This CPU seems like it might be worth Framework looking into because it might compete with some of the i5 and Ryzen 5 mainboards.
Just got my DeepComputing RISC-V mainboard for the Framework 13 and saw that they are also using the LT6711A. I guess there is no way around it 
This is a great project, and if you’re able to bring it to fruition I would definitely be interested in buying a board.
For my mind the CM5 is more desirable than alternatives because they’ve shown they actually support these devices long term. Basically every other one of these SBC and compute modules get dropped out there, get lots of bechmarks, then gets forgotten and little to no follow-up from their manufacturers, who are already moving on to their next board.
The slow pace of Raspberry Pi releases is why they’re popular and worth developing for.
This is a great idea. I hope you get it working
I just found this topic 28.11.2025 and following it because I have sworn off Intel processors since I bought my 2019 MacBook Pro i9: it is a great machine but I don’t want any more flame throwing Intel processors.
The single engineer designed anyon_e laptop is shockingly good, but I like your idea of working with Framework to bring a fully capable ARM laptop to us mere mortals of the enthusiast engineering crowd!
Please keep us informed of any progress and if you have a ‘donate to project’ available, I am interested.
Can’t really blame intel for what apple did there.
An intel n100 chip is significantly stronger than both the pi5 and rk3588, uses very little power and has none of the compatibility issues the other two platforms have.
Are you sure a pi5 would be strong enough for your application?
