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?
There are many Intel based solutions out there, I have an Intel i9 MacBook Pro that is excellent, if a bit hot when doing things like video encoding. I really want to try an ARM or RISC-5 Laptop, see what is possible with modern non-Intel chips.
Unfortunately, the OP hasn’t responded in nearly a year, I think this thread is dead.
Isn’t an offshoot of deep computing making an intel board now? Not using a pi but a different chip though.
If it’s about heat though I would not get your hopes up, that thing is likely going to run hotter than all the other available boards doing the same thing.
has anybody thought about doing this for the framework 12? i am curious in how one would make the touchscreen to work?
Unfortunately, I stopped the project a while ago since there was no way around the LT6711A chip.
The chip manufacturer didn’t reply to my request and the chips are hard to get (with documentation) from other places.
I read that all details are kept under NDA which makes an open source project difficult 
Did you consider other cm5 type boards?
E.g.
It has DP out, thus not needing the hdmi to dp translation chip.
