> > I was not going to sugar-coat anything here. And I understand that > using the 16-bit memory bus width was a side effect of extreme cost > reduction. The primary LIME competitors are likely not high end > ARM devices, but Raspberry Pi and low cost microcontrollers. > The whole point of my e-mail is just that clearly outperforming > them may need some tuning on the software side for better > utilization of the memory bandwidth that is available. > > exactly, LIME was build to show/proof that something low cost like RPi/BBB but more powerful could be made with Allwinner chips :-)
LIME2 which we work now with A20 will have 1GB RAM (32 bit width) and Gigabit Ethernet, but it will be not possible to make LIME2 for price similar to LIME, unless hundreds of thousands devices are produced which I do not see realistic the market for small Linux boards already is highly saturated and unless community with the size of RPi is built there will be no such sales. BBB with all efforts and money TI throw in is still 10-20 times smaller in sales. I believe there is a long way to further optimize the running software to utilize the all co-processor power as BBB is also 16 bit data bus, have no idea about RPi databus width but LIME with Cortex-A8 should outperform RPi too with equal databus width Tsvetan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
