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.
$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-bo... 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 AMD on the other hand, has taken a different direction. Their still recovering from nearly gutting the company from chasing Intel on the pyre that is Gaming Performance. Their new CEO is focusing on profitability in the markets where they are still strong, Servers and GPUs. This does however includes a road map for a common socket architecture for AMD64 and ARMv8 server systems. AMD became a full ARM licensee a few years ago for this purpose. http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/ambidextrous-computing-2014may... http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/64-bit-developer-kit-2014jul30... -- Scott Sullivan