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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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