[Arm-netbook] SoC warp soldering risk?

[Bill Kontos]

The octa core SoCs available right now are rather terrible when it comes to
heat and power management( like the kirn 960) and we are rather limited by
the fact that everything has to run on libre software

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Allan Mwenda <allanitomwesh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd say get EOMA68 cards to be fast first. Maybe even 64 bit octacore or
> something fancy like that.
> Then get the tablet out that has an EOMA68 slot. That will definitely be
> popular if the specs are good display/battery wise.
> If theres a laptop and theres a tablet, then there'll be proven customers
> for a phone (the people who funded the other two)
>
>
> On 25 April 2017 05:18:31 GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <
> lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Adam Van Ymeren <adam at vany.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>  On April 23, 2017 1:20:47 AM EDT, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  it's also why i haven't done a smart (or dumb) phone, because
>>>> *without* that smaller size (due to "stacking") you simply can't make
>>>> a small enough PCB for it to be socially acceptable, these days.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  I would totally buy and use a phone large enough to fit an eoma68 CPU card.
>>>
>>
>>  i thought of a potential way to deal with that, and it's to allow the
>> Card to stick out the side.
>>
>>   But there may not be wide enough appeal to get the costs down to a reasonable number.
>>>
>>
>>  well that's why i want to do a smaller card (EOMA50).  honestly if
>> spending the time on this i would prefer to do something that stands a
>> chance of a larger appeal (and would reach an acceptable crowd-funding
>> threshold)
>>
>> l.
>>
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