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Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards (intel.com)
Intel is discontinuing its Galileo, Joule, and Edison lineups of development boards. The chip-maker quietly made the announcement last week. From company's announcement: Intel Corporation will discontinue manufacturing and selling all skus of the Intel Galileo development board. Shipment of all Intel Galileo product skus ordered before the last order date will continue to be available from Intel until December 16, 2017. [...] Intel will discontinue manufacturing and selling all skus of the Intel Joule Compute Modules and Developer Kits (known as Intel 500 Series compute modules in People's Republic of China). Shipment of all Intel Joule products skus ordered before the last order date will continue to be available from Intel until December 16, 2017. Last time orders (LTO) for any Intel Joule products must be placed with Intel by September 16, 2017. [...] Intel will discontinue manufacturing and selling all skus of the Intel Edison compute modules and developer kits. Shipment of all Intel Edison product skus ordered before the last order date will continue to be available from Intel until December 16, 2017. Last time orders (LTO) for any Intel Edison products must be placed with Intel by September 16, 2017. All orders placed with Intel for Intel Edison products are non-cancelable and non-returnable after September 16, 2017. The company hasn't shared any explanation for why it is discontinuing the aforementioned development boards. Intel launched the Galileo, an Arduino-compatible mini computer in 2013, the Edison in 2014, and the Joule last year. The company touted the Joule as its "most powerful dev kit." You can find the announcement posts here.
I mean, on paper the specs are great, but I've actually done projects with these things and they're seriously junk. They burn out if you look at them wrong. Additionally, they have a 1.8v gpio level, so there's basically zero chance that you can use any other peripheral without level shifting.
I've talked to a lot of other folks about them as well, they have a terrible reputation in the maker community.
And they're expensive.
So yeah, I'm not surprised. I abandoned them after a single project, like most other folks I know.
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Arduinos typically represent logical bits using 5 volts. When purchasing devices that work with Arduinos (such as sensors) manufacturers will develop those sensors to communicate using 5 volts as well. Raspberry PIs actually use 3.3v to represent bits, so you'll often see manufacturers develop both 5v and 3.3v versions of devices. Level-shifters are the equivalent of adapters - they sit between two devices that use separate voltage levels to exchange data and "shift" them to the correct voltage.
So, if Intel's boards use 1.8v, this makes it harder to use existing sensors and other devices made for PIs and Arduinos.
This sums up my experience.
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19...
Signature v3.0, now with 42% less memory usage.
The pi uses binary blobs. It's intent was to be cheap for students, not an open source platform.
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Standard procedure for bad news is to post it to your press/corporate site on a Friday, but not actively tell anyone.
Standard procedure for good news (or new product news), is to hint, tease, and preannounce, then reveal early in the week with announcements on the press/corporate site, emails to journalists, branding and news "articles" on the main site, etc. Throw in some reviewers / tech "journalists" who are suckling at your teat and willing to sign NDAs and you'll have tons of coverage ready to go when you want it.