Until today, the Prototypes campaign covered five prototypes with a goal of €11,000. We have now reduced the number of prototypes to three in order to cut costs, so the campaign goal has been updated to €9,100 — great news!

Power Progress Community ODV and ACube Systems are putting our hearts into this challenge: we have signed the contract with the manufacturer to start prototype production, even though we have less than three months left to raise the remaining funds needed to cover the production costs

All the donors who have supported this project for years — first for the Notebook prototypes, and now for the Desktop — want something tangible and functional. This is why we have signed to start prototype production, aiming to have the prototypes ready by the end of September 2026.

Our desktop design reuses a significant part of the latest (2023) version of the solid, proven source design of the NXP T2080RDB Development Kit, combined with elements of our own design — USB3, audio chip, dual RAM slots, and other features we originally defined in late 2017 for our first notebook motherboard, with additional features added in 2025 for the desktop. You can go more deep on this redesign.

In January 2026, our desktop board design was reviewed by NXP, resulting in a few fixes that allowed us to improve the quality and robustness of our design

Prototype production setup will begin after the summer holidays, starting on 24 August 2026, and we will keep you updated on progress. It is possible, though not easy, to have the prototype ready by the end of September 2026 — we are doing our best to make that happen.

DONATION CAMPAIGN

Over the past months, your support and donations have been incredibly generous, allowing us to fund the PCB design quickly and already reach a good percentage of the current donation campaign. Thanks to your generosity, we believe we can reach the goal in time.

We remain fully committed to making an open-hardware, notebook-based PowerPC machine a reality. The desktop version is the right step to let more people own, enjoy, and test software on this platform while spending less money.The notebook fork will resume once the desktop version is in production.

A closer look at our desktop motherboard

As you can see in the board block diagram below, here are some more details about the board:

• High-quality audio (optical digital audio inputs and outputs, six analog RCA connectors for 7.1 surround sound, separate ground connections for the analog and digital sections to ensure maximum sound clarity)
• Two DDR3/DDR3L slots
• Three PCIe connectors (one PCIe Gen3 x4 on an x16 slot for a video card, one PCIe Gen2 x4 for a secondary video card, one PCIe Gen2 x1)
• I2C/UART connector
• Two M.2 slots (one 80 mm, based on PCIe Gen3 x4, for the primary SSD; one 30/42/60/80 mm, based on PCIe Gen2 x4)
• Two SATA2 connectors
• One microSD slot
• Four USB3 ports (2 rear, 2 front)
• Two USB2 ports (rear)
• Two Ethernet ports (allowing firewall use)

The NXP T2080 Processor include DPAA incorporating acceleration for the following functions:

• Packet parsing, classification and distribution up to 24Gb/s (FMAN)
• Queue management for scheduling, packet sequencing and congestion management of up to 2^24 queues (QMAN)
• Hardware buffer management for buffer allocation and de-allocation with 64 buffer pools (BMAN)
• ntegrated security acceleration (SEC) to 10 Gbp
• Decompression/compression acceleration at up to 17.5 Gbps (DCE)
• Signature detection (PME) to 10Gb/s
• DPAA support of RapidIO® messaging (RMAN)

DONATION CAMPAIGN