The $35 was the magic number if you come close to it more chances to attract people you have. The Rpi got quite successful, so lot of companies followed in the aim to make the next better Raspberry Pi (we at Olimex also 🙂 went to this route with OLinuXino OSHW Linux computers fixing the fact that RPi is closed source design).
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Actually lot of Android TV sticks in this price range were available so the technology was there just nobody from Western world had explored it.
When Raspberry Pi foundation advertised they will make Linux computer for $25 very few believed this is possible, then after some time hitting rocks on the road they made partnership with Farnell and RS and made this happen. What? Single board computer with 512MB RAM and 4/8GB Flash and WiFi for only $9? Probably everybody heard for the next big thing after Raspberry Pi – the C.H.I.P. So expect Quad core LIME soon and I guess at same price range like other LIMEs! This means more modern SoC with more power but without forcing you to re-design your boards. Now they did it again – we got information from Allwinner that they are about to release Quad core more powerful processor which to be pin to pin compatible with A10/A20 we still don’t know the name, maybe A40 ? 🙂Īnyway this is very clever move as all existing designs which people have can be re-used. All other new devices they release have either LCD either HDMI but not both and we miss SATA interface in all new Quad core devices they released. This was incredible wise move for Allwinner as people could just re-use their old PCB designs without spending time to change PCBs.Ī10/A20 had one nice feature – they have LCD, HDMI, SATA, Ethernet, in A20 Allwinner even add Gigabit Ethernet on top of the normal 100M Ethernet.
Then Cortex-A8 single core become obsolete, then Allwinner released A20 – Dual Core more powerful and power efficient Cortex-A7 processor with pin to pin backward compatibility to A10. A10 was one of most successful chips made by Allwinner, for couple of years it was top seller in tablets and other devices, A10 also was selected for our EUR 30 low cost Linux board the LIME.
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