Intel Edison: Single Card Computer?

now they should go for the microSD version ....

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.

I just got back from CES and although there was big press about this board I was really expecting more of the booth to be dedicated to this and the Galileo. There was always a crowd around the board and the baby and coffee cup application examples. For those asking about uSD format, there's just no way to put everything into that small a format with everything has. I'm not sure I like the choice of using the SD format but I guess they were going for a known low cost form factor.

George Ioakimedes wrote:

 

I'm not sure I like the choice of using the SD format but I guess they were going for a known low cost form factor.

Me neither, however as long as it behaves like a standard SD or SDIO card then there may be method behind the madness as it would save inventing some new interface and then trying to get others to buy into that idea.  Others have observed that getting embedded folks to agree on a common form factor is virtually impossible.

George Ioakimedes wrote:

 

I just got back from CES and although there was big press about this board I was really expecting more of the booth to be dedicated to this and the Galileo.

So did you manage to get your hands on one and get us some power consumption and performance numbers ?

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.

I'm struggling.... by the time you add a break-out board (let alone connectors / peripherals), it won't be much smaller than the much more powerful single-board computers already out there.  I agree with @selsinork - the only appealing novelty is that it's x86.

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

I don't really have time to look for numbers; you can do that yourself.

What I do have is a ~10" tablet running full windows 8.1 for as long as any ARM tablet will run and snappy too, all subjective, of course.