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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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  • in reply to jamodio

    Yeah, I got that too. That video was painful to watch! I've never used that site before for backing projects, do they take less fees than KickStarter? Just kind of curious why it was used instead of KS.

     

    They still have 36 days left in their campaign so if they say shipping end of November they must already be in production and just using this campaign to take more orders?

     

    FYI, I've got the ball rolling on a potential low cost i.MX6 board. Hoping to get some initial questions answered later today or Monday.

  • in reply to GeorgeIoak

    George Ioakimedes wrote:

     

    FYI, I've got the ball rolling on a potential low cost i.MX6 board. Hoping to get some initial questions answered later today or Monday.

     

    If you are able to make it in the $50-100 range I'm in for one.

  • in reply to jamodio

    jamodio wrote:

     

    If you are able to make it in the $50-100 range I'm in for one.

     

    If we're talking about a cut-down board (I was), then the upper price limit would appear to be set by the Wandboard's $69, unless that project fails to deliver.  Offering less but costing more obviously isn't a very good market strategy.

     

    The Freedom board's £8.17 + cost of i.MX6 + its PMIC + 512MB RAM should give a rough estimate of the bottom end of the possible selling price.  If that doesn't fall below the Wandboard's $69 then there is no market, if Wandboard delivers.

  • in reply to morgaine

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    The Freedom board's £8.17 + cost of i.MX6 + its PMIC + 512MB RAM should give a rough estimate of the bottom end of the possible selling price.  If that doesn't fall below the Wandboard's $69 then there is no market, if Wandboard delivers.

    I agree, the price point needs to compete with the Raspberry Pi. I know that some of the i.MX6 processors are pin compatible so having different versions of the board could be very easy.

     

    Since nothing is released yet I'm starting off with an NDA with Freescale and that process has already started so stay tuned. If this looks like it might happen then we might consider starting a new thread.

  • in reply to jamodio

    Hey jamodio

    I liked the sound of cubieboard's specs - so I just "contributed". It could be fun since I have several sata drives.

    Peg

  • in reply to Former Member

    Peg Wagner wrote:

     

    Hey jamodio

    I liked the sound of cubieboard's specs - so I just "contributed". It could be fun since I have several sata drives.

    Peg

    I totally agree, SATA is very attractive as well as having LVDS +HDMI so I'll probably throw something at them but I think I'll watch for a little bit to see what happens since the campaign isn't ending for another month. To be honest though, I'm a little nervous about something coming out of Shenzhen and what the support or dare I say quality, will be like.

  • in reply to GeorgeIoak

    Well (gulp) it won't be the first time I've jumped at something like this - won't be the last I'm afraid. I do get lucky though - so we'll see what happens. That video was the deal maker, for sure image)!!

  • in reply to GeorgeIoak

    George Ioakimedes wrote:

     

    just read this news post which is a little concerning http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/01/freescale-layoffs-target-one-particular-product/

    I wonder how semi-accurate this news is?  Freescale seemed to be promoting i.MX6 enthusiastically at ARM TechCon yesterday.  It doesn't make sense to abandon the whole i.MX team, or even move the team to another site.  You've got to keep institutional knowledge around, particularly for a brand-new product.

     

    IMO Freescale has had a long-term problem with having way too many chips and product lines.  Personally, I'd be delighted to see them concentrate on Coldfire and PowerPC instead of trying to compete with TI, NXP, ST, and a bunch of other small players in ARM.  Coldfire and PowerPC are nice differentiators.  I rather liked the MPC5125 and was sorry to see that line discontinued just when it started to get interesting.

     

    I could be wrong, but I think I recently heard that TI is planning to ease out of the OMAP biz.  It may be that TI and Freescale (and ST-Ericsson, IIRC) have decided that its too hard to complete with the likes of Rockchip and AllWinner in cell phones and tablets -- better to go for automotive and industrial.  Consumer electronics is really cut-throat.

     

    JMO/YMMV

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    If I were a Freescale shareholder, I think I'd be confronting the dear CEO with a point blank question about whether  i.MX has a future at Freescale, to be answered in English rather than in CEO doublespeak.