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Sipeed

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1 product on the map — 1 open-ish.

Sipeed MaixCAM

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
schematics
published (available via wiki/GitHub)
toolchain
open (fully open (MaixPy/MaixCDK, Apache-2.0))
datasheets
public (public on wiki)
blobs
required (SG2002 silicon proprietary)
retail
open_market (global via AliExpress/Taobao)
form_factor
board (camera board sold ready to run)

Open Apache-2.0 SDKs, public schematics/datasheets, and global retail availability, though the SG2002 silicon itself is proprietary.

  • https://github.com/sipeed/MaixPy recorded 2026-08-13

    "Apache License 2.0 Sipeed Ltd." on the MaixPy SDK, with MaixCAM listed as a supported hardware platform

  • https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/maixcam/maixcam.html recorded 2026-08-13

    hardware resources listing Schematic and Datasheet downloads; SOPHGO SG2002 with a 1GHz RISC-V C906 and 256MB DDR3; "MaixCAM hardware info, more info please refer to CPU's datasheet"; Purchase section with Sipeed Taobao and AliExpress links

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

Sold globally via AliExpress and Taobao with an active MaixPy/MaixHub community, but reach is concentrated among hobbyist and RISC-V edge-AI developers. MaixPy is active and now banners a successor part ("MaixCam 2 is LIVE") while still listing MaixCAM and MaixCAM-Pro as supported platforms, and the wiki carries live Taobao and AliExpress purchase links.

Capability

2 high confidence
2.0

1 TOPS and only 256MB RAM suit lightweight vision/audio models, the lowest compute tier among these devices. The spec table reads "1TOPS@INT8, BF16 model support" with a 1GHz RISC-V C906 and 256MB DDR3, which is the smallest part in this category, below google-coral-dev-board's 4 TOPS.