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Interesting "Competitors" for the Raspberry Pi

wallarug

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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  • The parallela sounds and looks cool but we are talking about a major project that includes sillicon rebake and that probably is 6-12months away from mass production.

     

    Meanwhile while there are other developments that are not exactly comparable to the R-Pi, they are slowly but steady making progress, like the OLinuXino boards from Olimex. I'm testing both the micro and maxi using the Freescale iMX233 application processor SoC (fully documented by the way,) waiting for the A13 one and they also have under development one using the A10. The iMX233 Maxi uses also the LAN9512 and I didn't find any issues with it yet (and BTW the connectors are properly aligned and it has a nice swtiching power supply, the board is slightly bigger than the R-pi, no HDMI/VGA tough.)

     

    I also recently got a TI AM335x Starter Kit, you will start to see more stuff based on the AM335x and TI will get more agressive to dettach the OMAP from some applications and put it on boards similar to the R-Pi.

     

    Still the R-pi continues to be a good idea, unfortunatelly with an associated plan badly executed and with more focus on hype and promotion than really make it a strong and solid "product" with the participation of a community that is eager and able to contribute.

     

    No schematics, no Gerbers, major concern is "cloning" .... I'd not clone something that is not working properly ...

     

    -J

  • in reply to jamodio

    Should we see if anyone in the Raspberry Pi community wants to support this project? (Parallella supercomputer)

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