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PC Engines APU2 offered unmatched flexibility in the sub-$200 x86 segment:

  low-power, fanless 
  open-source coreboot firmware
  Intel NICs (vs Realtek)
  open schematics
  USB, SD, SATA or mSATA storage
  ECC RAM
  GPIO
  TPM and DRTM
  3rd party cases for rack/wall mount
  supported by Linux, Xen, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, pfSense, OPNsense

They are taking orders until June 2023, for shipment in ~6 months.

Alternatives have different feature subsets, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635900#35636898

We've been developing an industrial IoT gateway at work on top of the APU2 series, and there really is nothing quite like it. I'd add to that list support for mPCIe LTE modems. My only real complaint with the APU2 was that the story around TPM support isn't great - while they do technically support a TPM, its via an additional board you plug in, and availability is more or less non-existent. Apparently the CPU has a built in TPM but PC Engines were unable to get it working, and AMD weren't engaging with them on resolving that.

> while they do technically support a TPM, its via an additional board you plug in, and availability is more or less non-existent

It's not listed, but they used to sell Infineon TPMs for the LPC socket. Have you emailed them to ask?

Yes, I have a sample of one on my desk, but it was provided along with a disclaimer that lead times to get them in bulk are 12+ months.

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