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Intel Edison: Single Card Computer?

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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.

 

 

Cheers from the Polar Vortex,

Drew

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  • in reply to Former Member

    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

  • I wonder if there is any product manager at Intel with the presence of mind to realize that:

     

    • If Edison is pitched at $10, it will vanquish everything else in the world.
    • If Edison is pitched at $100, it is completely irrelevant and a waste of billions in R&D.

     

    The scale from failure to success is so extremely narrow and so non-linear that there is no room at all for "Let's pitch it at a price that recoups investment in X years".  Nobody knows what X is.  The only thing that is certain is that prices below the radar of pocket change result in no barrier to purchases.  [And hold onto your panties, because we're talking about multiple purchases at the low price point.  How can any salesperson dislike "multiple"?]

     

    One of the good things that Pi has brought about is the realization that price point is key.  I don't expect Intel to have learned that though.  I enormously hope that I'm wrong.

     

    Morgaine.