[Arm-netbook] So this is kind of interesting, I thought...

[Paul Boddie]

On Tuesday 18. September 2018 14.05.44 Christopher Havel wrote:
> https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solderable-processor/

Interesting comment from Olimex:

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-linux-capable-hand-solderable-processor/#comment-5108388

In short, the article is referring to the A13, procured from people recycling 
them from old devices and, I could easily imagine, doing all the usual tricks 
to pretend that they are new/working/genuine.

> A (barely) hand-solderable Linux-able ARM SoC. US$1 each if you buy a full
> reel from a questionable supplier

According to another comment from Olimex, the original packaging is trays not 
reels. But it wouldn't be Hackaday if it weren't encouraging questionable 
commerce and bizarre hacks that are difficult to reproduce and less convenient 
than doing things in other ways. And there's also the mandatory Hackaday 
clickbait factor, of course.

Meanwhile: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/r8/

The R8, A13 equivalence being noted in other comments on that article, plus 
the NextThingCo connection.

Paul