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That’s a pretty significant jump in complexity, the RK3588 is one of the most powerful SOCs available. A cool part, but I’m not sure it fits the OpenWRT use case

What's the complexity? They start at $70 or so in the RK3588S flavor, it's basically a CPU with a PCIe bus, the software, board complexity, and cost seems just about the same as the proposed OpenWRT solution.

1. that isn't going to help you get under the $100 price point

2. Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC, and Rockchip doesn't have any WiFi chips.

The rk3588 is frankly a non-starter.

> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC

There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes it possible. (The main SoC is replaced with a ZXIC one, a ZTE subsidiary)

These are $30+ with PMIC in China. Very expensive SOC. RK3566es are around $6.

Sure there's a bit of a premium, seems like a pretty big CPU and PCIe upgrade and would allow 2x2.5G.