The LattePanda Sigma

Following up on my testing of the LattePanda Mu and IOTA, this time I’m looking at the Sigma, which (as is becoming the norm with my recent pieces) I actually got before summer break. I wanted to have a look at it because it is something else again in the LattePanda universe: consider a laptop-class Intel motherboard with the case, keyboard, and display removed, but with more accessible I/O than most mini-PCs, and you’re close enough: LattePanda Sigma retail box. And it doesn’t stop at I/O: the Sigma I’ve been testing has a Core i5-1340P and 32 GB of soldered LPDDR5 (which is probably worth its price in gold right now), making it probably the most powerful “single board computer” I’ve ever used. Disclaimer: DFRobot was, again, kind enough to send me a Sigma free of charge, and as usual, this article follows my review policy. Even though I generally prefer ARM and AMD for that, there is a lot of Intel hardware in industrial manufacturing, and I see i5 factory floor machines starting to…