On Tuesday 18. September 2018 14.05.44 Christopher Havel wrote:
https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solderable-processor/
Interesting comment from Olimex:
https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solderable-processor/...
In short, the article is referring to the A13, procured from people recycling them from old devices and, I could easily imagine, doing all the usual tricks to pretend that they are new/working/genuine.
A (barely) hand-solderable Linux-able ARM SoC. US$1 each if you buy a full reel from a questionable supplier
According to another comment from Olimex, the original packaging is trays not reels. But it wouldn't be Hackaday if it weren't encouraging questionable commerce and bizarre hacks that are difficult to reproduce and less convenient than doing things in other ways. And there's also the mandatory Hackaday clickbait factor, of course.
Meanwhile: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/r8/
The R8, A13 equivalence being noted in other comments on that article, plus the NextThingCo connection.
Paul