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?
...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?
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
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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.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
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.
Ah... somehow I was thinking that the ICore SoC was ARM. Silly me! (Sounds like even if it were, it'd be noticeably worse than the GPU-with-some-small-processing-ability known as the RasPi ;) )
Oh well.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
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.
Ah... somehow I was thinking that the ICore SoC was ARM. Silly me! (Sounds like even if it were, it'd be noticeably worse than the GPU-with-some-small-processing-ability known as the RasPi ;) )
the raspberrby pi cpu is not FSF-Endorseable.
this is a interesting card/soc, it's so cheep and faily fast~.
ps. don't you mean no proprietary software (drivers, firmware)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
this is a interesting card/soc, it's so cheep and faily fast~.
ps. don't you mean no proprietary software (drivers, firmware)
there's no proprietary hardware blocks therefore there is no proprietary software. the instruction set is designed for video and 3D *in* the main processor, as a "unified" processing unit (UPU).
l.
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