Hello,
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 01:11:55 +0100 "luke.leighton" luke.leighton@gmail.com wrote:
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Quark
what's missing:
[long list]
to put this SoC into industrial or embedded purposes, you have to use expander ICs that cost more than the price of a single integrated CPU
Well, some people laugh at ARM vs Intel market cap, but Intel is rich because it charges real money for their CPUs, and then charges again for all that funky stuff which keeps PCBs big. Now if they go embedded, they can't give you that all (even in "mini") right away - because either it'll cost too much comparing to the competition, or they may end up known as producers of the best CPUs for gamers with fine print of "also chases ARM and MIPS on their native markets", because nobody would buy mid-range stuff.
So, we'll see how it goes. The Quark thing is definitely a probe of how much market will dislike it in the bare shape it is. The only exciting thing about it is that Intel itself does that, because stuff like http://bifferos.co.uk/ was there for ages.
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the "arduino-like" market falls into a similar category to industrial / embedded... except even the open community will think twice about buying it, because there's not enough multiplexing for them to use it for several possible scenarios.
My favorite of Galileo board is:
(http://www.intel.com/support/galileo/faq.htm) ------- What is the maximum rate at which GPIO output pins can be updated?
The GPIO output pins on Intel® Galileo are provided by an I2C Port Expander that is running at standard mode (100 kHz). Each I2C request to update a GPIO requires approximately 2ms. In addition to software overhead, this restricts the frequency achievable on the GPIO outputs to approximately 230 Hz. -------
You immediately can see they're embedded pros - they don't tell "200", they tell "230". Come on, Intel, try harder, you can beat that ATtiny on its territory!