Intel Edison: Single Card Computer?

Do they also make it in micro-sd ?

Looks really cool though.

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

Amazon have the Galileo for sale at 69.95.

Link ?  All I get are books..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=intel+Galileo&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aintel+Galileo

The official Arduino shop doesn't have them:

http://store.arduino.cc/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=522

just a 'notify me' signup..

It's on the US site: Amazon.com: Intel DEV Kit Galileo1 ATX DDR2 1066 NA Motherboard: Computers & Accessories

selsinork wrote:

 

Intel traditionally has a process advantage on the competition, but it's usually been tuned towards desktop/server processors where power consumption concerns have been different.

They also have the biggest pot of cash for R&D, so sorting out these problems is easily within their capabilities. They need to have the will to change though, and as that might just mean walking away from x86 I think it's something they'll find difficult to do.

Intel always has to be careful that they don't produce a cheap, low-margin processor that eats into the sales of their high-margin processors.  This is a tricky situation, because Intel's competitors are perfectly happy to produce a cheap, low-margin processor that eats into the sales of Intel's high-margin processors.

I say the best strategy for any tech company is to work as hard as possible to make their own products obsolete.  After all, that's what their competition is doing.

I don't think Intel is going to be dragged away from x86 any time soon.  Those fingernails are deeply embedded, and the reality is that x86 still has superb performance.  With a decoded instruction buffer, it really doesn't matter that much how instructions are encoded in DRAM.

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

It's on the US site

Ok, probably not orderable from there for shipping to the UK though

So with a confirmed price we're back to wondering if it's worth the money or not...

I think it would be interesting to get a ballpark idea of sales numbers for a lot of these boards one year after release to get some idea of whether they gain any amount of popularity.

I think this is small potatoes for Intel but I can't help thinking that they want to be a player in an emerging 'maker' community.  The environment isn't much different from the days of Apple II and IBM PCs in the early 1980's.  If they price their offerings outside of a reasonable range they won't be making much of an impression.

selsinork wrote:

 

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

It's on the US site

Ok, probably not orderable from there for shipping to the UK though

 

So with a confirmed price we're back to wondering if it's worth the money or not...

 

I think it would be interesting to get a ballpark idea of sales numbers for a lot of these boards one year after release to get some idea of whether they gain any amount of popularity.

You probably can, I have purchased from Amazon US before, I have a separate account setup.  Like you say is it worth the money though, I am interested in the Arduino Tre (BBB+Arduino on one board) when that is available, but only if the price is right

You probably can order it from the US but you are down for the shipping costs and any custom tax that may get added.

Den

I haven't checked RS UK, but RS in Australia stock it at about twice the price of Amazon US, though freight is included in the price RS publish.

Obviously under UK rules, there is VAT to add on.

Colin

RS are a very expensive company. They rely on a large selection and quick delivery.....but boy do you pay for it. I avoid them unless they are the only one left.

RS are a very expensive company. They rely on a large selection and quick delivery.....but boy do you pay for it. I avoid them unless they are the only one left.

Somewhat earlier and almost on topic Dan said:

Den Riley wrote:

 

RS are a very expensive company. They rely on a large selection and quick delivery.....but boy do you pay for it. I avoid them unless they are the only one left.

Actually RS are quite price competitive with Farnell/E14, frequently being cheaper on electronic components. I still go to E14 first because their web site is much better for finding stuff than the RS site. If I had time I would look at both because neither is clearly cheaper.

RS and Farnell (as well as Digikey and Mouser) are all very clear about where stuff comes from - of course you can get stuff much cheaper from other places and I think that branded stuff from Amazon is quite safe - unbranded stuff or things from Ebay are a  different kettle of fish altogether. (eg - you can buy "cloned" electronics blatantly abusing copyright and trademarks from Amazon UK - dead cheap but quality ??????).

MK