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I've never heard of the allwinner A10 before, and it looks great on paper: 1.5ghz Cortex-A8, 1 GB RAM, SATA, 3d graphics and hardware video decoder, and the oth
by lgeek 15y ago
I've never heard of the allwinner A10 before, and it looks great on paper: 1.5ghz Cortex-A8, 1 GB RAM, SATA, 3d graphics and hardware video decoder, and the other usual stuff like SD, HDMI, Ethernet, NAND and various other I/O ports, plus full GPL source code (I was under the impression that ARM don't release the source code for MALI drivers under GPL?).
However, it looks like they haven't produced a single unit yet. It's vaporware. They hope to sell an initial batch for something closer to $70, which seems more realistic, but I still think they're overly optimistic.
On the other hand, Raspberry Pi is looking good. They've had considerable delays (I think initially they were intending to start selling the boards in November), but they're making good progress and seem to have plenty of traction. Their target price seems more easily reachable considering the lower specs compared to the allwinner A10.
- asb 15y agoNovember might have been mentioned as a possibility, but end of the year or December has afaik always been the stated target. I'd hardly say delays so far are 'considerable'.
- lgeek 15y agoWell, I remember them mentioning late November as a likely time to start shipping boards. You'll find some references to this on their [FAQ page](http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs). We're in late December and they haven't even sold the beta boards (although that will probably happen soon). Manufacturing and actually shipping the first large series will take some time. I'll agree that 'considerable' might be a bit too much, but they're late according to the initial schedule.
- otherpope 15y ago"plus full GPL source code " This is the relevant page and it does not look good: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/ http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/kernel_compile/