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  • jeffkibuule - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

    A pretty cool board that's perfect for my projects!
  • Ikefu - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

    Bring a dual core atom to an Arduino/Raspberry Pi type platform is amazing. I wonder how it compares in terms of single core compute to a Raspberry Pi? Its half the frequency but I'm betting it destroys it in instructions per clock so a comparison would be really neat to see.
  • dragonsqrrl - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

    I don't think the raspberry pi is clocked at 1GHz, but even if it were it would probably still get completely steamrolled in terms of performance. It's what, an Arm11 or something?

    But then again it is priced lower, so you have to take that into consideration.
  • gngl - Thursday, September 11, 2014 - link

    RPi has a slow CPU, but some people apparently managed to run computationally intensive code on the GPU, and that has up to 25 GFLOPS. Now that is a theoretical maximum that you may not reach in many computations, but for example FFT (which is arguably very important for many applications) runs about ten times faster on the GPU: http://www.raspberrypi.org/accelerating-fourier-tr... That sounds like a decent speedup to me! Lack of documentation has been until recently the reason why people couldn't do this in the past.
  • aruisdante - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link

    Silvermont Atom is roughly on par with a Cortex A9 in terms of CPC performance. So yeah, it's a LOT more powerful.
  • iwod - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

    No, Silvermont is better then A15.
  • virtual void - Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - link

    Depends on what you do. A15 behaves a bit like an American muscle-car, great in a straight line (few conditional branches, few tree/linked list traversals etc) but kind of lacks in handling.

    Silvermont absolutely crush A15 in things like
    http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/perfor...
    which kind of suggest that Intel is still light years ahead ARM in L2-cache design.
  • dragonsqrrl - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

    I think even the pre-Silvermont Atom architecture (can't remember the name) was a little faster than the Cortex A9.
  • iwod - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

    I wonder if they have any PCI-Express connection available. I mean this is perfect for Router/ NAS etc Appliances.
  • coder543 - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

    I remember specifically that it was supposed to be a dual core Quark chip... this is disappointing to me. It's a potent accomplishment, no doubt, but programming for a heterogeneous architecture like this won't be as easy as programming on a homogenous system, and multicore microcontrollers are rare enough (though they do exist) that it would have at least filled a niche, but maybe I just don't understand the purpose of this platform.
  • mkozakewich - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - link

    Back when I first heard about this, I was scheming about the possibility to create a credit-card-sized computer. I don't mean just two of the dimensions -- I wanted it to be at most a few millimetres tall.

    Anyway, the thin-ness just wouldn't be there. I'd still like to see if I could get Windows XP to run on this. I don't suppose it has a PCI bus?

    I like neat things like this.
  • toyotabedzrock - Thursday, September 11, 2014 - link

    They need to provide video output, they are avoiding it because they are scared of hurting sales in other places but it is going to be needed along with a price cut for the breakout boards.

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