[Arm-netbook] ST Nova™ A9500

[lkcl luke]

ok, brief analysis: no RGB/TTL (only digital MIPI) but there are 2
MIPIs.  conversion to HDMI is done through a companion chip called
AV8100.  the other one down-conversion to RGB/TTL i don't know.
ethernet is on a 16-bit General-Purpose bus - an IC called a
LAN9221i-ABZJ.  there's no SATA.

so it's all down to pricing.  they've paid linaro's $USD 1m per year
fees, so that has to be covered somehow.  bari, if you're speaking to
avnet (or whomever) could you ask about those two ICs as well (AV8100
and LAN9221-iABZJ).  if we have 1k and 50k volume pricing we'll have a
clear idea of whether they have head-in-clouds or realistic numbers.

my immediate feeling is that, although it was initially exciting i
think we can do better (e.g. tegra 3, which has SATA-II, gigabit
ethernet and PCI-e).

it all comes down to price.  but, feature-wise, it's stacking up
closely against the TI OMAP44xx series, which also doesn't have
on-board ethernet or SATA-II.

l.