Quad Core Linux computer is now $35.00.
Don’t put up with the slow single core computer anymore.
If you are considering a tiny computer for general purpose computing, software development or as a project platform,
the ODROID-C1 will give you a lot more satisfaction and fun with incredible performance for a very low price.

* Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A5(ARMv7) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs
* Mali™-450 MP2 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 enabled for Linux and Android)
* 1Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM
* Gigabit Ethernet
* 40pin GPIOs
* eMMC4.5 HS200 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD Card slot
* USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB OTG x 1,
* Infrared(IR) Receiver
* Ubuntu 14.04 or Android KitKat

You can get more information from ODROID Magazine.

Imagination Technologies, the MIPS chipper firm behind PowerVR, has a new hobbyist board. For fifty quid you can do some techie tinkering.

If you’ve called your company “Imagination”, there is an irony in making some hardware where the declared aim is to have developers do the imagining, but that’s by the by.

The idea is to build a community similar to that surrounding Arduino, Beagle or Raspberry Pi, which will create applications and devices which then use MIPS processors. Imagination points out that a billion MIPS cores ship a year, and while people tend to think of the world being divided into ARM or Intel, they are around too. The Ci20 is the first of a number of products which will be sold under the “Creator” brand.

The Ci20 has an emphasis on video. There is a four-pipe PowerVR SGX540 graphics offering full support for OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 and dedicated video hardware for low power 1080p decoding at 30 fps and resolutions up to 2K.

Behind this there is a 1.2 GHz dual-core, MIPS32-based Ingenic JZ4780 SoC, 32kB L1 I- and D-cache, 512kB L2 cache processor and fast Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. It’s packed with 1GB DDR3 memory, 4GB flash and an SD card expansion slot, and, as you might expect, loads of ports: 2 x UART, 25 x GPIO, 2 x SPI, I2C, ADC, expansion headers and a 14-pin ETAG connector, so you could interface it to a Raspberry Pi.

MIPS Creator Ci20 comes pre-installed with Debian 7. Other Linux distributions will be available, including Gentoo and Yocto. Users can also install the latest version of Android v4.4. Imagination is in the process of porting Lollipop.

An exciting new microcomputer for Linux and Android enthusiasts has arrived.

Pre-order your MIPS Creator CI20 microcomputer for $65/£50

Today, I’m extremely excited to announce we are ready to embark on a new adventure. For the first time in the history of computing, MIPS and PowerVR meet in an affordable Linux and Android development board that will be easily accessible to everyone. We will be selling the Creator CI20 boards straight from our store (click the buttons below to pre-order one now). North America and Europe will be the first regions to get it in late January, followed by a gradual rollout to other territories.

$65/£50 gets you a fully connected, high performance microcomputing platform that can be used for a wide variety of applications. Here is a brief list of the key specifications:

Processor: 1.2 GHz dual-core, MIPS32-based Ingenic JZ4780 SoC, 32kB L1 I- and D-cache, 512kB L2 cache
FPU: IEEE754 Floating Point Unit, XBurst MXU
Multimedia: PowerVR SGX540 GPU, hardware-accelerated video playback up to 1080p at 60 fps
Memory: 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 4 GB flash memory, 1 x SD card
Audio: AC97 audio, via 4-pin input/output jack and HDMI connector
Camera interface: ITU-R BT.645 controller
Connectivity: 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
Display: 1 x HDMI up to 2K resolution
USB: 1 x USB host, 1 x USB OTG device
I/O peripherals: 2 x UART, 25 x GPIO, 2 x SPI, I2C, ADC, expansion headers, 14-pin ETAG connector

Powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series system-on-chip featuring a dual-core 1-GHz CPU and a 300-MHz Radeon 8000 series graphics processor, the Gizmo 2 single-board computer from GizmoSphere gives embedded programmers and expert DIYers an open-source platform to build high-performance designs.

This second-generation x86-based board, launched at this month’s Electronica show, runs Linux, including the Embedded Linux distributed by TimeSys and Windows Embedded 7 and 8.

Gizmo 2

More single board computer (SBC) manufacturers are popping up on the market every year, bringing in tow myriad options. Some of the newer SBCs to hit the market are certainly impressive, given their respective price points, multicore CPUs, and gigabytes worth of RAM that rival some tablets and smartphones. That onboard memory is key in taking SBCs out of the embedded world and into mainstream usage. Gone are the days of blinking lights and command lines. Only through RAM can desktop-level software come to the embedded development world.

For your entertainment purposes, below is a compiled roundup of just a few SBCs outfitted with more RAM that are currently on the market.

Arduino and Raspberry Pi are great, well-utilized DIY boards for hacking just about anything you want to design. But if you’re looking for an alternate hacker board, here are seven that Steve Nelson, Freescale’s director of ecosystem and marketing programs, presented at this week’s Designers of Things (DoT) conference.

Teensy 3.1
Freedom
Udoo
WaRP
RIoTboard
Wandboard
HummingBoard

The Hummingboard from SolidRun comes in an oddly familiar form factor to anyone who has ever handled a Raspberry Pi. It also has an interesting feature: the CPU is on a small module, allowing anyone to upgrade the chipset to something significantly more powerful

Also in the Freescale booth was the pcDuino, a dual core ARM Cortex A7 with Ethernet, WiFi, and a SATA, with Arduino form factor pinouts.

[Trey German] from Texas Instruments showed off some very cool stuff, including a quadcopter board for a Launchpad microcontroller.

Also from TI was their CC3200 dev board. This is a single chip with an ARM Cortex M4 and a WiFi radio that we’ve seen before. The CC3200 runs TI’s Wiring/Arduino inspired development environment Energia, and at about $30 for the CC3200 Launchpad board, it’s an easy and cheap way to build an Internet of Things thing.

Parallella Computer
http://www.parallella.org/board/

The Parallella platform is an open source, energy efficient, high performance, credit-card sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by Adapteva. This affordable platform is designed for developing and implementing high performance, parallel processing applications developed to take advantage of the on-board Epiphany chip. The Epiphany 16 or 64 core chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in C/C++ connected together with a fast on chip network within a single shared memory architecture.

Overview:

Zynq-7000 Series Dual-core ARM A9 CPU (Z-7010 or Z-7020)
16 or 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator
1GB RAM
MicroSD Card
2x USB 2.0
4 general purpose expansion connectors
10/100/1000 Ethernet
HDMI port
Ships with Ubuntu OS
3.4″ x 2.15″ form factor