KVM expansion card utilizes RISC-V CPU architecture for enhanced remote PC management — Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe now available for pre-order starting at $40

The product is also open source, allowing greater software customization when the appropriate pages go live.

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I like it, will probably buy when they finish open sourcing the code
What exactly does this do?
- Its an IP KVM
  
  Huh, so you connect your display, mouse and keyboard to this thing, which is in a pcie slot of your current machine, and you can somehow switch it to every machine in your (local) network?
  
  I guess you need a vnc server or something similar running on all hosts?
Bought it. (The external version). It’s bit buggy
What's the use case for PoE? If the mobo can't supply energy, there's not much you can do via this device, right? What have I missed?
- The network port on the KVM will connect to a switch (which can provide PoE, potentially), not to the device it's managing.
  
  Sure but if there's no power on the mobo, the device can't do anything. Even if it sends an ACPI on signal, there's no power. 🤷

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