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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, John Luke Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the <a > href=http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki</a>. > There isn't much information on the page however. > The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with > an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre > system would be if not "technically" all the way there. The board > itself has both(I think?) an arm and a x86 on board, simply because > adapteva is too new to have enough libraries ported for a full os (I > think?). > Now their boards are $99 which is a jump from $40, so my question > would be was price differential the reason why it wasn't included or > where there too many compatibility/tooling issues? i believe i spoke to them (it may have been a different company), if i recall correctly (which i probably don't) their core PCB (which they haven't released) is 12-layer, which means "insanely expensive to produce". mostly it's down to practicality of cost, and time. if people offer to *pay* for these boards to be made, i'll get them done, no problem. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
