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posted by CoolHand on Friday May 08 2015, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-things-come-in-little-packages dept.

makezine.com has an article on a new $9 SBC.

An Oakland, CA based team of artists and engineers have built $9 Single Board Computer (SBC) called Chip. Chip runs Debian Linux as its operating system and includes a 1Ghz quad core R8 ARM processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage as well as 8 GPIO ports, onboard wifi, bluetooth, battery controller and other goodies.

While the Chip is capable enough to manage office and other general purpose computing, it's mainly intended as a project board. The team has some optional extras, including Pocket Chip, a portable, handheld enclosure with an LCD screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and internal battery. With this combination, the Pocket Chip is a fully functioning $50 computer.

If you’re wondering how Chip could be this inexpensive, you can thank cheap Chinese tablets. The System-on-Chip used in the development board is based on an A13 processor by Allwinner, a Shenzhen-based semiconductor company. As recently as 2013, Allwinner was the second largest tablet manufacturer in the world, and the A13 was the most successful processor in Allwinner’s lineup.

Could this be a Raspberry Pi killer?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Friday May 08 2015, @09:45PM

    by mtrycz (60) on Friday May 08 2015, @09:45PM (#180501)

    I'm partial to puns.

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