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While I love the BeagleBone Black (and have built a number of boards for it), the SIP (Octavo OSD335x-SM) in these is just too expensive. The SIP currently sel
by lsllc 9y ago
While I love the BeagleBone Black (and have built a number of boards for it), the SIP (Octavo OSD335x-SM) in these is just too expensive. The SIP currently sells for $43.73 on Digikey (it only gets down to around $25 at volumes >1K).
Given the lack of ethernet, Wifi/BT/BLE this really ought to be below or at $10 mark (at most!) to make it cost effective for designs.
- wl 9y agoDigikey has the AM3358 for $13.51@Q500. I'm sure Octavo gets a much better price with their volumes, but this was never going to be a $10 part, especially considering all the other stuff that goes on the package.
- lsllc 9y agoThe CHIP-Pro is $16 and includes a whole lot more than the OSD335x-SM (sure, the R8 is a bit less capable, but it's plenty fast for IoT type stuff).