On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Very nice!
How does the ICube (I think I got the capitalization right there) SoC compare to eg an Allwinner A20, in terms of performance?
not at all :) it's a $2 quad-core 400mhz 55nm processor in a low-cost 210pin QFP package running (if i understand it correctly) the cray mainframe instruction set, with absolutely no proprietary hardware whatsoever: it's therefore FSF-Endorseable.
the allwinner a20 is a dual-core 1.2ghz ARM Cortex with proprietary video and 3D components priced somewhere around $7.
...and (I'm going to regret asking this, as I have no money at all right now) how much for one card + minimal desktop carrier board such as the Mini Engineering Board?
again: that's dependent on volume, but i am guessing in volumes of 250 it would be around the $75 mark sale price. by the time you get to the 1k volumes - again guessing - it'd be somewhere around $65 sale price. 10k and again entirely guessing a very rough estimate would be around $50 sale price. BUT, please note: i still have yet to work all that out.
l.