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Interesting "Competitors" for the Raspberry Pi

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It is interesting to see what people are comparing to the "An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!" to these days.

 

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-touted-in-kickstarter-project/

This article is talking about a $99 dollar supercomputer that has 16 cores @ 700MHz each.

 

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/28/09/2012/54676/raspberry-pi-gets-a-competitor.htm

This article is about an ARM board, not that different to the Raspberry Pi but with more power and RAM.

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  • Hello

    Have you heard about the Sabre-Lite board based on a Freescale i.MX6Q (Cortex-A9, Quad-Core, 1GHz) ?

    i.MX6 is really a powerfull processor considering its 4x Cores @1GHz, its Graphical Unit Vivante for 2/3D, its Video Unit allowing 1080p multi-Encoding/Decoding and its Image Unit for multi-camera input/display outputs.

    The IC was announced few months before but the launch is imminent (November 15th during Electronica) with samples available.

    Sabre-Lite will be sold (with an aggressive resale price) and supported by Element14.

  • in reply to GregC

    I've seen it, but $199 will be too high for my pocket.

  • in reply to jamodio

    ouch for $200 I'd rather go all the way and just do a full fledge computer using a pico-itx board.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Jim, I understand your position.

    Just keep in mind that board will come with i.MX6 will be in Quad Core version @1GHz with a dedicated VPU for multi-video decoding and encoding capabilities up to 1080p or 3D HD, 1GB of DDR3, a camera input and up to 3x video output (1x HDMI, 1x LVDS and 1x Parallele)

    In terme of multimedia performances, i.MX6Q might outperform the NVidia Tegra3 with its dedicated Video Processing Unit.

  • in reply to GregC

    First off, it having an LVDS is pretty awesome, I keep hoping (probably in vain) that the Pi will either get an LVDS or someone will make an interface for it using something like the DSI bus.

     

    That said, I don't mean to discourage anyone else from getting the board.  I think these ARM based boards are quite amazing, but for me graphics and camera input aren't high priorities so if I'm going to dish out the extra cash it's going to be for significantly more processing power, or a lot more RAM.  For me, personally, there's also a limit where ARM compatibility with some obscure piece of software hit a price ceiling I'm not willing to go past.  Shoot, if it weren't for the support that exists for the Pi in the 2 forums, I probably wouldn't have gotten a pi.

     

    But that's why they make more than one flavour of tea, right?

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  • in reply to GregC

    First off, it having an LVDS is pretty awesome, I keep hoping (probably in vain) that the Pi will either get an LVDS or someone will make an interface for it using something like the DSI bus.

     

    That said, I don't mean to discourage anyone else from getting the board.  I think these ARM based boards are quite amazing, but for me graphics and camera input aren't high priorities so if I'm going to dish out the extra cash it's going to be for significantly more processing power, or a lot more RAM.  For me, personally, there's also a limit where ARM compatibility with some obscure piece of software hit a price ceiling I'm not willing to go past.  Shoot, if it weren't for the support that exists for the Pi in the 2 forums, I probably wouldn't have gotten a pi.

     

    But that's why they make more than one flavour of tea, right?

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