| Title | The Imagination Tech MIPS CI20 in Action | |
| Date | Saturday December 20 2014, @01:00PM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the Chips-n-MIPS dept. | ||
Last week Imagination Technologies put up a set of videos of the MIPS based CI20 board in action.
Today we will be showing you a selection of these demonstrations that focus on three areas: gaming, multimedia streaming and web browsing.
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Our setup rig includes one Creator CI20 microcomputer, two Jongo S3x wireless speakers from Pure, one power meter courtesy of Hardkernel, a 1080p HDMI-equipped monitor, a USB keyboard and mouse, and a custom-designed Android robot keeping us company.
While watching the videos keep an eye on the power meter too; no matter what gets thrown at it, Creator CI20 rarely pushes more than 2.5W!
And on a related note Tom's Hardware is running a hands on review of the latest board with the stock Linux Debian and Android images, and is slightly less than impressed by the performance of the Android images, however:
When running Linux, the Creator Ci20 has decent system performance (what you'd expect from a low-end mobile chip), can play HD videos well, and supports several I/O options. It performs better, and supports more features, than the Raspberry Pi, for only a little extra cost. While it may just be powerful enough for use in a cheap computer for checking email or Facebook, its performance and price may be overkill for some maker projects.
The CI20 is a Dual Core MIPS32 board built around the Ingenic JZ4780 SoC running at 1.2GHz with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, 1GB of DDR3 RAM and various connectivity and storage connections. More detailed specifications are available, as well as a comparison against Raspberry Pi/B+ and BeagleBone black boards. Note that the original revision had 8GB of NAND Flash, but the newer version only has 4GB, which appears to be the only difference between RevA & RevB.
Imagination ran a giveaway for the RevA boards in August (and rapidly ran out), but the next batch of CI20 boards (Rev B) is stated as being available from the end of January 2015, and Imagination appears to be taking pre-orders now, with links to buy available at the Imagination site.
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