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Introducing the Intel Galileo Development Board
- geoffhill 13y agoMost notably missing from this page: how, where, and when can I get one?
- baq 13y agothe net says end of november for general availability. edit: from the FAQ: Where can I buy an Intel® Galileo development board? The Intel® Galileo Board is scheduled to be available on or about November 29, 2013 from distributors such as, Mouser, Avnet, Arrow, Ingram, and at Maker Shed*.
- elec84 13y agoI managed to get a galileo board at the Maker Faire Faire Rome if you are interested I can sell it to you, it has never been used, totally new I can send pictures. I live in France.
- hmottestad 13y agoAnyone know the price? Arduino is 20-30 USD R Pi is 35 USD Arduino Due (w/ARM) is 50 USD
- ollymorgs 13y ago$70, but only on pre-order
- modernerd 13y agoMouser Electronics in Germany are the only place I could find them listed today. They're offering them at $77: http://d.pr/b2j8 http://d.pr/b2j8
- elec84 13y agoI have one galileo for sale today ask if you are interested.
- gngeal 13y agoDon't forget BeagleBone Black for ~$45, with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 application CPU and two additional independent 200MHz control MCUs.
- crusso 13y agoThe BBB is a pretty rockin' little board. Really between the Arduino's ability to have applications extremely cost reduced and the full OS power of the BBB, the RPi has been squeezed out of my stable of solutions for small/embedded system applications.
- ollymorgs 13y agoI don't understand the selling point here, maybe someone can explain to me why: 1) I'll buy a board that's more expensive than all of it's competitors. 2) has a website that's impossible to understand any detail, it's all sales chat. 3) Has a tiny processor and even less RAM. 4) Very underwhelming specs all round, i'm also not that bothered about x86 (should I be?) As far as I can tell, Intel has turned up late to the party with a cheap bottle of wine. I don't understand the unique selling point here at all, maybe someone can elaborate? However, if intel's chip was super power efficient, and the board had a built-in li-ion battery that could power the whole thing for a month between recharges, now that would be interesting.
- Aqua_Geek 13y ago> I don't understand the unique selling point here at all, maybe someone can elaborate? Mini PCI Express slot?
- daeken 13y agoThat's why I'm picking one of these up. If for nothing more than hooking an FPGA up to it.
- makomk 13y agoEven if you did have x86-specific code chances are it wouldn't run on this anyway - it's basically a 486 and even a lot of Linux distros won't boot on hardware that ancient anymore. Also, it's quite power hungry.
- pavlov 13y agoIt's not a plain 486. The SemiAccurate article[1] offers some more details: How did Intel achieve a P5 ISA on a 486? Easy they added the handful of instructions to the old core while they ripped and replaced just about everything else. What did they add? Obviously the few new instructions on the P5 but not in the Pentium MMX generation. On top of that PAE and large page support was added along with local APIC style interrupt support. - - The Quark designers did start out with a 486 design and promptly threw most of it out. Most of it is a new core but some bits were actually carried over. Why start with a 486 rather than a Pentium if you throw most of it out before adding in all the new ISA bits but not the architectural advances that the P5 line brought to the table? Easy, power. The 486 uses less while providing the performance Intel had targeted. On top of this more traditional C-State support that is much better than the 486 could dream of but nowhere near a modern CPU was added to the Quark core. They also threw out the 486's front-side bus and replaced it with a modern SOC equivalent with PCI Express and ARM's "AMBA Fabric". With this many changes, it sounds like a reasonably modern x86 machine (except for a total lack of MMX/SSE vector instructions) that should be able to run a Linux distro that targets older hardware. [1] http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/ http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/
- unwind 13y agoI think the page, despite its title, does a rather bad job of actually introducing the board. Shouldn't it start, front and center, with a big sell-in as to why the Galileo is (I guess) more awesome than the Arduino? What you can do with it, that you couldn't do before? And, perhaps, just some basic specs? Now I had to look for the Specs page, and download a PDF, just to get the "bullet points" for this new platform.
- WatchDog 13y agoHere is a better introduction: http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo
- rwmj 13y agoReally a 486 ...? http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/ http://semiaccurate.com/2013/10/28/intel-talks-little-quark/
- girvo 13y agoOuch. They really slaughtered it. As a hobbyist I think I'll get one; even though financially it probably doesn't make sense, it'll be fun to play with what amounts to a "modern" 486! Would be extra fun to build a small kernel for it, which is probably what I'll end up using it for :) Using a Core processor in 16-bit real mode makes me giggle these days, but I love fiddling with toy kernels! This seems well suited with an arch that I'm familiar with. One day I'll learn ARM properly I guess
- swatkat 13y agoGalileo doesn't have hardware graphics acceleration, and native video outputs (may be solved by capes though). That would make Galileo not so suitable for media center or streaming applications, where BeagleBone and Pi excel... unless somebody manages to fit (externally powered?) PCIe graphics card and port its drivers to Galileo ;)
- pavlov 13y agoIt's a Pentium-class CPU with PCI Express. Intel says that it can run Linux and Windows. If that's true, shouldn't existing drivers from NVIDIA and AMD just work?
- joezydeco 13y agonot so suitable for media center or streaming applications, where BeagleBone and Pi excel... Can we all just finally admit that the whole "educational" thing of the RPi is out the window?
- andyjohnson0 13y agoI'm not clear about Intel's motivation for releasing this. Are they looking to capture a part of the hobbyist/education markets, or do they see this as being a product that will used by businesses (who I'm guessing are the majority of their customers) for serious embedded applications? Note that I'm not saying at Arduinos can't be used for "serious" applications, only that my perception is that so far they haven't displaced existing microcontrollers in industrial/automotive/etc applications.
- weland 13y agoArduino is a bunch of stuff around an Atmel microcontroller. For all intents and purposes, it is an existing microcontroller, except that the platform itself is outrageously expensive, far too expensive to be of any commercial use.
- kefka 13y agoEven though it isn't about galileo, I wrote a blog post about the new Intel perceptual computing platform. In effect, they built a MS Kinect for $150, Windows only, and undeveloped software (only SDK). Intel's new trend seems to be to piggyback on successful older ideas, and do badly at making their version. Its their choice to make sub-par equipment, but its also my choice to criticize them for these jokes. And seriously... a x86 atmel clone? I can source 384's for $1.80 on digikey and use an arduino as a programmer. Sigh. http://crankylinuxuser.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/intel-perceptual-computing-fail/ http://crankylinuxuser.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/intel-percep...
- acd 13y agoWhat is the price of the Galileo board?
- fancyketchup 13y agoHuh. A SoC on a board targeted at hobbyists without any capture/compare timer resources. What an... interesting choice.