Intel's Edison: SD-card sized PC

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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html

Introduced at CES, it's a tiny PC featuring a dual core "Pentium class" 400MHz Quark (x86) processor, wifi, BT and memory. It goes on sale this summer.

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I hope you don't loose it lets say you carry it in your pocket yet you have a hole in your pocket it drops on the sidewalk and ants take it away =)
 
Most portable retro gaming computer. Now we just need a 3Dfx add-on card. Two for SLI.
 
The stuff from gumstix is similarly small (though a different shape).

There are also the wi-fi SD cards that turned out to have an arm linux system inside.

All we seem to have so-far about this device is marketing spin. When we know stuff like what interfaces it has and what if any external support hardware is needed to provided power and connections to the outside world we will be able to really evaluate it.
 
450 said:
Most portable retro gaming computer. Now we just need a 3Dfx add-on card. Two for SLI.
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You might come up a bit short powering a classic SLI rig. These things are 486 class in terms of performance. So that is around the same performance as a 250 mhz Pentium.
 
It would be nice to be used in a wifi router running dd-wrt or tomato, which will be low power and high performance than those on the market now.
 
I dont like it. We are automating the need for humans to even be alive away.
 
Pretty nifty, Intel! I'll think I'm going to wait for the 5th or 6th gen when it's the equivalent power of a quad core i5. :)


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I dont like it. We are automating the need for humans to even be alive away.
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That's been happening since, well, humans have existed.
 
Yeah, too bad there's not old video accelerators made for Quark. Imagine a hand-held retro gaming device.

DejaWiz said:
Pretty nifty, Intel! I'll think I'm going to wait for the 5th or 6th gen when it's the equivalent power of a quad core i5. :)
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:p That's not really the point of Quark chips. There's a need for very low end CPUs for embedded applications (see: ARM M0+) where very, very low power is more important than performance. While there will probably be updates to the core in the same way Atom evolved, I doubt it's ever going to be a high performance chip if absolute lowest power remains the goal.

Unless of course you're talking about a point in the future where i5 performance is as slow as a Pentium is today. :p
 
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