AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads.

The board uses the CiX P1 CD8180 SoC, which features a 12-core CPU with Arm Cortex A720 and Cortex A520 cores. Its Immortalis G720 GPU supports Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, and hardware ray tracing, while the integrated NPU delivers up to 30 TOPS of AI compute. The system supports up to 64 gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM and includes PCIe Gen4 with 8 lanes for high-speed expansion.

Cix CD8180 Architecture
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Multimedia capabilities include hardware video encoding and decoding for resolutions up to 8K, with support for AV1, H.265, and VP9 formats. Display options include HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4, eDP, and USB Type C with DisplayPort Alt Mode. Networking and connectivity are provided by dual 5 gigabit Ethernet ports and an M.2 E Key slot for Wi Fi 7 and Bluetooth modules. USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 are supported through both Type A and Type C connectors.

Orion O6 Peripherals
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According to the announcement, AMI’s Aptio V UEFI Firmware brings modularity, security, and scalability to the Orion O6. It supports efficient platform initialization, firmware customization, and long term stability, helping developers and users configure, update, and maintain complex systems with confidence.

Srivatsan Ramachandran, Senior Vice President at AMI, stated, “This Radxa Orion O6 demo platform powered by our Aptio V UEFI Firmware represents a great leap forward in AI compute infrastructure targeted at AI applications and edge computing. We are proud to work with CiX and Radxa on this demonstration highlighted at COMPUTEX and excited to see how the industry will react.”

Orion O6 Main Features
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The Orion O6 supports both Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions, with full UEFI functionality via EDKII. Installation, BIOS update methods, and ACPI configuration are documented on Radxa’s Wiki.

Further Information

The Radxa Orion O6 is currently available through AliExpress, Arace Tech, AllNetChina, and Amazon. COMPUTEX Taipei 2025 will be held from May 20 to May 23 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, where AMI and Radxa will present their collaboration. Additional details are available in the official AMI announcement.