On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Scott Sullivan <scott@ss.org> wrote:

On 12/29/2014 01:35 AM, William Park wrote:

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 09:12:53PM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:

This Christmas I got myself another ARM dev board. In this case the
HummingBoard-i2eX from SolidRun.

http://www.solid-run.com/

$100... hmm, I guess we're paying for mSATA, mPCIe, and gigabit.

I really don't know why Intel/AMD don't release x86 version for this
market segment.  People say, power consumption on ARM.  They can reduce
power consumption on x86, too.  After attaching USB devices, mSATA SSD
card, mPCI wifi card, the power issue is moot anyways.

Intel certainly has not ignored these low power, small form factor SoCs. The have provided two SoC over the last few years, with inexpensive dev boards, one of which that is in it's second generation.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galileo-maker-quark-board.html
http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo


http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html
https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/272
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Edison