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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 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.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    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.

    You're right, the rumors have been flying around that Amazon will buy OMAP (specifically http://www.lab126.com). I doubt they'll tell me anything but I'm going to ask about the future of i.MX. No sense jumping into it if the future is uncertain. I certainly hope that the future doesn't revolve around Rockchip and ALLWinner..

  • in reply to Former Member

    I was just looking at the schematic of the Cubieboard (http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard) and one thing I see that I like is that there's direct access to a 2-channel LVDS interface which means you can connect a FHD LDC Panel. That's the good news, the bad news is that the only I/O I see is a single SPI, I don't se any free GPIO pins.

  • in reply to GeorgeIoak

    George Ioakimedes wrote:

     

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    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.

    You're right, the rumors have been flying around that Amazon will buy OMAP (specifically http://www.lab126.com). I doubt they'll tell me anything but I'm going to ask about the future of i.MX. No sense jumping into it if the future is uncertain. I certainly hope that the future doesn't revolve around Rockchip and ALLWinner..

    I see Rockchip and AllWinner and perhaps a few others at the low-end phone and tablet space, i.e., devices sold for under US$100.  Samsung, QualComm, and nVidia will fight it out for the high end: devices over US$200 unsubsidized.  Dunno about the no-man's land in between.  If Amazon buys OMAP, I don't know what that does to B&N.  Probably doesn't matter.  Amazon can afford to have a higher-cost device since they make their profits from the "razor blades".

     

    Samsung has the advantage that it uses its own ICs and displays in its end products, eliminating middle-men.  They seem incredibly well run for a huge company.  They probably don't understand any of the jokes in Dilbert.

  • in reply to GeorgeIoak

    George Ioakimedes wrote:

     

    I was just looking at the schematic of the Cubieboard (http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard) and one thing I see that I like is that there's direct access to a 2-channel LVDS interface which means you can connect a FHD LDC Panel. That's the good news, the bad news is that the only I/O I see is a single SPI, I don't se any free GPIO pins.

    I would think that if you're using LVDS, the unused LCD pins would be available as GPIOs.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    I would think that if you're using LVDS, the unused LCD pins would be available as GPIOs.

    I was kind of thinking that might be possible they aren't listed as an optional GPIO but other pin functions are listed with dual choices. I don't need/want parallel RBG LCD connection but if you were to use that you wouldn't be left with free pins.