Banana Pi BPI

May 23, 2023

Banana Pi BPI-R4 is a WiFi 7 router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Corex-A73 processor with 4GB DDR4 RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, and 128MB SPI-NAND flash.

The board also comes with two 10GbE SFP cages, four Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports, a USB 3.2 port, as well as an M.2 socket for a 4G/5G modem or an NVMe SSD, and two mini PCIe slots with PCIe 3.0 to support WiFi 7.

Banana Pi BPI-R4 specifications:

The company plans to release OpenWrt and Debian images for the board and also points to a Linux mainline patch for the MediaTek MT7988 SoC but that’s just for Ethernet support. The wiki has some more extra information, but no details about the software. You may have noted the Banana Pi BPI-R4 board does not come with a WiFi 7 module by default, and it needs to be added via the two mini PCIe sockets as shown in the photo below.

It looks like an early announcement and we don’t have availability or pricing information at this time. Banana Pi likes to unveil boards around six months before the actual launch, so I’d expect the Banana Pi BPI-R4 WiFi 7 router to become available sometime in Q1 2024.

Thanks to TLS for the tip.

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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