On Tuesday 24. November 2015 05.03.16 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
second, the jz4775 CPU Card is finally underway: http://rhombus-tech.net/ingenic/jz4775/news/
this is the first FSF-Endorseable CPU Card, using the 1.2ghz low-power Ingenic MIPS. it seems strange to put a $3 processor alongside $2.50 of NAND Flash and then put in almost $12 of DDR3 RAM ICs (2 GB RAM) but the threshold where SoCs were no longer the most expensive part of a BOM was passed a loong time ago.
This is great news! I also like the 2GB RAM support - with many ARM single- board computers still only supporting 1GB, it makes sense to go for the maximum here - and the USB boot mode support, which is great for experimenting with new boot payloads and is one of the nice things about the Ben NanoNote.
Paul