[HH] $8 computer with Linux installed...

[Kurt Keville]

Well, that is an ARM Cortex-A53 board... in the enterprise world I doubt
you could use anything less than Cortex-A57... there are lots of benchmarks
on the HiKey 96Boards consumer edition model (another A53 variant) that
proves it's unsuitability to the server market... not sure if that is the
chip or the board talking but it is miles away from even 4-core A57
performance...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=96Boards-HiKey-8-Core-ARMv8
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1511271-SO-1511262DE84
(note : these benchmarks were run before CUDA for JTX1 was released, and
L4T still doesn't support more than 4 cores...)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Shankar Viswanathan <
shankar.viswan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just saw a ARMv8 64-bit SBC on Kickstarter the other day:
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-board-super-comput
>
> Quad-core Cortex A-53 with 1GB RAM for $19.
>
> Not that I'm complaining (*), but how is anyone making money on this?
>
> -Shankar
>
> (*) Maybe I should be complaining, you know, given what I do for a living!
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:27:37AM -0500, Brough Turner wrote:
> > Just saw this http://getchip.com/ mentioned on the Battlemesh list,
> > although I see it was also on Ars four days ago:
> >
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/remember-that-9-computer-for-one-day-only-itll-be-8-plus-shipping/
> > and apparently on KickStarter at some time in the past.
> >
> > CHIP???essentially a cheaper, better Raspberry Pi???runs a 1Ghz R8 ARM
> > processor and hums along with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage. It
> > also has a full-sized USB port and a composite video out, so it can work
> > with older televisions.
> >
> > Fascinating!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brough Turner
> >
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