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Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-small-or-go-home dept.

szczys writes: Intel is upping their bid for a place at the efficient-yet-powerful device table. They've launched their Edison board, which features an x86 based SoC running at 100 MHz. The footprint measures 35.5mm x 25.0mm and offers a 70-pin connector to break out 40 pins for add-on hardware. Also at the Intel Developer Forum today, the company demonstrated a PC running on Skylake, a new CPU microarchitecture based on the 14nm process used for Broadwell. Intel is pushing to break into both wearable devices and household devices, as it sees both as huge opportunities for growth.

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  1. Arduino Compatible by necro81 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Dev Board that Edison plugs into appears to have Arduino R3 headers on there, presumably for plugging in Arduino-compatible shields. That's interesting, and makes a fair bit of sense: there are thousands of Arduino-compatible shields out there, and adding some serious computational power in there plus wire(d)(less) networking opens up a lot of possibilities.

  2. Re:Pricing? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also, the summary says "They've launched their Edison board, which features an x86 based SoC running at 100 MHz." but from what I've read, the CPU is a dual-core Atom running at 500MHz, it's the uC which runs at 100MHz.

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  3. These things used to be big as houses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Boy have we come a long way.

  4. Re:Pricing? by petes_PoV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would this be better than a RaspberryPI for small-scale arcade cabinets?

    There are already dozens of boards available that are better than the RPi for this sort of use. Many at less than the $49 this thing is up for grabs at.

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  5. Re:Pricing? by Eric+Smith · · Score: 3, Interesting

    $49 only gets you the Edison module, which is useless by itself. You also need a base board of some kind. The Edison module with the Arduino-compatible base board shown in the photos will set you back $99. Still a pretty good price. 3x more expensive than a Raspberry Pi, but it is a lot more capable.

    I'd get more excited about a 64-bit ARM embedded board, but those aren't available yet, other than a $6000 development board from ARM.