[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Exynos4412 Quad Core Board

[cnxsoft]

On 15/07/2012 10:33, Tom Cubie wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Barry Kauler<bkauler at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Dr David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>>> I wonder what the wart in the corner of the board is  - it looks like
>>> the highest component, almost looks like a retention battery.
>> Heh heh, yes, I was overjoyed when I saw that battery -- I have been
>> using the Raspberry Pi offline for sometime, no battery-backed clock.
>>
>> if you look underneath the Exynos 4412 main board, they are plugging
>> an eMMC module directly to the CPU board. So that is even thicker.
>> Board photos:
>>
>> http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G133999328931&tab_idx=2
>>
>> Well, that's the way they have done it, but I suppose the eMMC socket
>> could be brought out on the PCB of the main board to nearby.
>>
>> Regarding price of the 4412 CPU module, someone posted to this
>> mail-list asking about that. There is a comment on the CPU module
>> price here:
>>
>> http://odroid.foros-phpbb.com/t1062-exynos-4412-cpu-module
> "someone" is me : ) But 100$ for a cpu module is still very expensive.
>
Internet is a small place, we tend to always see the same people 
commenting...
About the price, $100 in 1k quantity is not that expensive for a CPU 
module with a quad-core SoC.