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Re:Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box by duskwuff on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:02AM (#4482792)
> As a bonus, though, it's all reasonably easy-to-assemble TQFP chips.

The A10/A13 require memory which is only available as BGA, though.

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Re:Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box by Zuph on Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:03AM (#4483758)
Fair point. You can find BGA memories with ball spacing just slightly north of impossible, though. As far as I'm aware, that isn't possible with most (any?) A10/A13 chips.
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Re:Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box by duskwuff on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:39AM (#4484582)
You might be surprised to learn that the A13 is available as QFP:

http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/cortex-a8-in-tqfp-sur...

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