> From where do you know this?
because as the guardian of the EOMA68 standard and the designer of the
various Computer Cards over the past 5 years (of which the EOMA68-A20 is the
first one to be publicly released), i say that i will do it, therefore it
shall be done. as you can see in the update i wrote yesterday i'm currently
tracking two other processors and there's one more i may add to the list
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/product-roadmap
> I require a computer enables full hdd encryption or as a minimum home
folder encryption. Can the computer card manage that?
i have no idea - you're the first person to ask. it has a
hardware-accelerated crypto engine so chances are high that the answer's
"yes". you'll need to look up the ARM Cortex A7 Crypto Accelerator Engine,
the specs should be available online. i'll put it on the list to investigate
but if you would like to help find out please do subscribe to the mailing
list so that other people can help investigate as well.
> You have introduced these limitations.
that's correct. it's so that there is no fans needed which introduces a
mechanical point of failure, dust and dirt getting inside the appliances and
so on.
> Discarding them what would the costs be to provide a mainboard with several
cpus?
it's a totally different project. i'm guessing that it'd be somewhere
around $50,000 in development costs as the space is incredibly tight, you'd
need specialist RAM ICs (compact ones) to reduce space, you'd then be into
MOQs of 1,000 units for the RAM ICs (if you can get them). it's a completely
different proposition basically. so on top of those $50k NREs you'd need to
find the cash for an order of between 500 to 1,000 units. it could be
done... but you'd need to justify it (a totally new crowd funding campaign
for example) and you'd need to find a market for it or a story for people to
find it attractive to back.
