Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board

Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by 2close4comfort on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @07:38AM (#8107499)

Go figure the m$ response costs 10x more

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Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by god_bless_texas on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @08:05AM (#8107592)

I hear ya, but it does include the ability to develop drivers which is pretty cool.

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Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by 2close4comfort on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:07AM (#8107831)

And does support android as well as windows so I will give them that. But really they could not have done ANYTHING to bring the cost down a little bit?

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Re:Sharks Cove – Tablet Development Board by joezydeco on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:03AM (#8108149)

That board is probably being sold under cost. Look at how much stuff is crammed onto that PCB! It looks like there's a large BGA bridge chip (southbridge?) on there as well as a bunch of large perpipheral controllers. And what's with that odd chip-on-board module directly south of the Atom? It's missing from this previous picture of the board:

http://files.linuxgizmos.com/intel_sharkscove_front.jpg

Compare this to a recent ARM quad-core A9 board, where a lot of the peripheral stuff is on the SoC (oh, and it has Wifi/Bt on board)

http://boundarydevices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Nit6Ma...

(Just a small plug for Boundary Devices here, their stuff is excellent. This is their new Nitrogen6_MAX, $249.).

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