On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2:44:50 AM UTC+3, Julian Calaby wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Marius Cirsta <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 5:24:01 AM UTC+3, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> > Does anyone have any info on the new Allwinner R8 module being used > in > >> > the Chip $9 PC Kickstarter? It is A13+flash+RAM on module. > >> > > >> > I'd like to get a pin out and projected price. That module has to be > >> > really low cost if they are able to make a $9 computer out of it. > >> > >> *sigh* I am amazed that people still fall for what i can now only call > >> the kickstarter trap. > >> > > Yeah, it's a bunch of crap, crowdfunding .... we're better of letting > the > > corporations and investment funds deciding what to fund and what not. > > Why are we arguing about whether or not crowdfunding and this > particular campaign is viable when the question was only using it to > point out that the particular SoC was probably cheap? Like *mumble*% > of kickstarter projects, it's probably too good to be true, but who > here really cares? And if they do, why are we hijacking Jon's question > to make that point? > > IIRC the actual question was where / when will the R8 SoC be available > for other device builders? > > Does anyone actually have any useful info on that? > > Thanks, > > Indeed , my guess is that info will be available soon on this R8 but I guess these guys spilled the beans early. I also do wonder if it will still have the Mali400.
As for the board itself , let's see if they deliver and how they'll cooperate with linux-sunxi. If it is indeed a sham than there will be a lot of pissed people. > -- > Julian Calaby > > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ > -- 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/d/optout.
