cpu cards being like buses, you wait for ages then 3 come along at once. i have been in touch with icubecorp, they have that awesome hybrid VPU/GPU/CPU core, and they decided to do a sub-$2.50 55nm 210-pin QFP out of it, running at 400mhz but quad-threaded. it's capable (on its own) of 720p video decode and 3D graphics *entirely* in software. the down-side is that this revision was designed as a low-entry android or embedded controller IC, so can only do up to 512mb RAM. they can do a respin but only with a large enough order.
this will be one of the very first FSF-Endorseable CPU Cards and it will be the precursor to a more powerful version which we will do later. the BOM is something staggering like only $12 and that's including a SMC9514 USB-Ethernet Hub. it is juuuust about EOMA68 compliant and the only extra interface will be an SD/MMC card. it will boot from SPI NOR Flash so that will be deliberately very small (enough to hold a bootloader).
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