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Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the powerful-kits dept.

Devindra Hardawar, writing for Engadget: We've seen plenty of unique dev kits from Intel, including the SD card-sized Edison, but not one as powerful as this. Intel announced Joule today, a tiny maker board that will allow developers to test RealSense-powered concepts and, hopefully, bring the to the market faster than before. The company says the tiny, low-powered Joule would be ideal for testing concepts in robotics, AR, VR, industrial IoT and a slew of other industries. And it also looks like it could be an interesting way for students to dabble in RealSense's depth-sensing technology in schools. There will be two Joule kits to choose from: the 550x, which includes a 1.5GHz quad-core Atom T5500 processor, 3GB of RAM and 8GB of storage; and the 570x, which packs in a 1.7Ghz quad-core Atom T5700 CPU (with burst speeds up to 2.4GHz), 4GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Both models include "laptop-class" 802.11AC wireless, Intel graphics with 4K capture and display support, and a Linux-based OS.

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  1. Looks like the first two posters... by CajunArson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    have never bought a dev kit in the real world before, and believe me there's a world of difference between these things and a Raspberry Pi.

    $369? Intel priced these to move.

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    1. Re:Looks like the first two posters... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      369$ for a development tool that is well documented?

      In the corporate development world that is pretty much giving them away.

    2. Re:Looks like the first two posters... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Reading these comments make me question how much experience some people actually have with corporate development tools.

      The compilers for our development tools cost more than this thing.

  2. Re:16gb ssd by wierd_w · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The builtin wifi with piggytail antennae is a nice touch, but it is still a step backward from the minnowboard, imo.

    Minnowboard has much less processing power and much less ram, but sports an actual sata interface.

    Intel seems fixated on having the sdcard be the one and only storage device on these dev boards. Personally, i feel putting a real ssd on here, or a spspiny disk for swap/temp file userver makes the offering far more robust.

    I see it has what looks like a mini pie riser zif connector over on the side there, but that means buying in even deeper into their proprietary hardware stream. I would rather have seen an M.2 socket with lock down screw on the back. That at least is industry standard hardware.