Zhihe A210 (XuanTie MelonPi dev board)
ZHIHE A210 (4×C920 + 4×C908)
Hard to buy
Zhihe Computing (board brand: XuanTie MelonPi)
- Specs
- 8-core 64-bit RISC-V: 4× C920 @1.9GHz + 4× C908 @1.9GHz, all with RVV (128-bit); NPU 12 TOPS@INT8 supporting INT4/INT8/FP8/FP16/BF16 and Transformers; LPDDR4X up to 16GB; eMMC5.1; H.265 decode 4K@120fps; the board is a SODIMM compute module plus V1/V2/V3 open carrier boards, 8GB LPDDR4X + 32GB eMMC (figures from a third-party project page)
- form factor
- SODIMM compute module + V3 carrier / A210 compute stick (dongle)
- Price
- No public retail price; boards come mainly through programme channels such as the XuanTie RV Academy and Huaqiu open hardware, and no public quote was found
- Preinstalled / official OS
- debian / buildroot
- Doc languages
- zh / en
- Checked
- 2026-11-01
Model disambiguation: the chip is Zhihe A210 (Archimedes series, XuanTie C920/C908 cores), while the board brand is written "XuanTie MelonPi". The Ubuntu image only covers the A200 (a200-evb) and does not work on the A210.
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Docs and videos
Pitfalls
- No retail channel or public price; boards go mainly through evaluation/partner channels, so ordinary developers struggle to buy one
- A210 and A200 images are not interchangeable: the official Ubuntu only covers A200, while A210 has Debian/Buildroot only
- There is no official BSP repo on GitHub/Gitee (zero search results); the kernel and drivers ship inside vendor SDK packages, and the community has almost no third-party distro support
- Vendor figures: about 8 tok/s for DeepSeek-7B on a single chip and 25 tok/s with 4 dies cascaded; measure it yourself
Sources6
- developer.zhcomputing.com/downloads/release/zhihesdk/v2.9.0/diskimage_v2.9.0_a210-evb-release_desktop_debian_public.tar.gz
- developer.zhcomputing.com/downloads/release/zhihesdk/v2.9.0/br2image-v2.9.0-a210_evb.tar.gz
- developer.zhcomputing.com/zh/docs/A210/A210_Datasheet
- developer.zhcomputing.com/en/docs/A210/A210_Datasheet
- developer.zhcomputing.com/zh/docs/SDK/Quick-start-guide/Basic_quick_start_guide
- developer.zhcomputing.com/zh/docs/A210/A210_Burning_Instruction/
The full source list and how each claim is judged: Sources