[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-IC1t prototypes back from assembly

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at 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.