[Arm-netbook] IMX6 prices?

[Tom Cubie]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd <
usunov at olimex.com> wrote:

> Are those manuals NDA only or available for download?  I'm mostly
>> interested in the user manual.  I was very impressed with their i.mx53 SDK
>> and documentation.  I world of difference compared to the poorly translated
>> or reverse-engineered info available for the Chinese chips.  I can't speak
>> for other developers but I know which one I would rather program for.  If
>> the pricing is similar and you can afford to wait until the hardware is
>> ready, I would go with a Freescale solution.  Too bad their current imx6
>> dev board is $300 or I would pick one up now to play with until final
>> versions are ready next year.
>>
>> The manual is under NDA, but you should have no problem to get one
> through your distributo, as we did.
> I guess they do this because the manual is still preliminary and many
> signals timing etc is TBD, when they start selling iMX6 in Q1 2013 they
> will put all info on their web as for the other iMX devices, samples for
> developers will be available in September.
>
Q1 2013? That will be too late...

> These $300 boards are with pre-engineering samples and probably have lot
> of bugs, which now they fixed and run next revision.
> One good concept of iMX6 is that 1-2-4 core devices share same pinout so
> you can use same hardware design for up to 4.8GHz accumulated processor
> power (4 cores running at 1.2GHz), and you have HDMI, SATA, 10/100/1000
> Ethernet, CAN etc.
>
> the price of iMX6Solo is lower than A10 for small quantities of 1000 pcs
> so releasing low cost board is matter of time ;)
>
>
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