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Intel Edison: Single Card Computer?

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or should I say "Secure Digital Computer" image

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Intel announced a new Quark dev board in the form factor of a SD card at CES.  Matt Richardson of Make reports:

 

Intel Edison: A Computer in an SD Card | MAKE

Intel’s new single board computer, Edison, takes on a familiar form factor. Jammed into an SD card, the 400MHz Quark processor on board has two cores, flash memory, and includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy for communication. It runs Linux on one core and a real time operating system on the other. You can program Edison by inserting the board into the SD card reader of your computer. The pins on the bottom of the board are capable of GPIO, UART, I2C, SPI, and PWM.

What do folks think?  My interest would depend on the price but the form factor is quite interesting.

 

 

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  • Do they also make it in micro-sd ? imageimage

    Looks really cool though.

  • in reply to vsluiter

    ARM had better look out - just compare the full-on power of the Intel marketing machine launching this board with the launch of the BBB. So far no detail on power or price but if they are competitive I can see this taking a big bite out of ARM's IOT ambitions.

     

    MK

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Michael Kellett wrote:

     

    ARM had better look out - just compare the full-on power of the Intel marketing machine launching this board with the launch of the BBB.

    And therein lies the problem. image

     

    I don't doubt that Intel can sort out their power consumption though.  I do have my doubts about whether they can overcome their long history of pricing processors stratospherically, which makes them irrelevant in the embedded market.

     

    The Quark SoC at the heart of their embedded plans needs to cost in single figures at high volume to conquer the high-end accessories market, and under $1 if they expect the ubiquity that they see coming with the Internet of Things.  Intel doesn't understand such low numbers, based on past precedent.

     

    Morgaine.

  • in reply to morgaine

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    I don't doubt that Intel can sort out their power consumption though.  I do have my doubts about whether they can overcome their long history of pricing processors stratospherically, which makes them irrelevant in the embedded market.

     

    The Quark SoC at the heart of their embedded plans needs to cost in single figures at high volume to conquer the high-end accessories market, and under $1 if they expect the ubiquity that they see coming with the Internet of Things.  Intel doesn't understand such low numbers, based on past precedent.

    IIRC, the quantity one price for the Intel 8080 when it first came out was US$300.  Isn't that the typical starting price for every processor that has come out of Intel since?  Traditions are nice, but sometimes you have to adapt to the times.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I wonder if it's tradition, or extreme costs, or Apple's technique of deliberate over-pricing to raise prestige with the captive faithful, or simply "whatever the market will bear".  We'll never know, but if it's the latter then the embedded market has spoken and has told Intel that it won't bear it.

     

    Morgaine.

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