“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi

Posted by zaaaaz on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:35AM
from the makezine.com dept.

http://makezine.com/2015/05/07/next-thing-co-releases-worlds-first-9-computer/

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by jsilence on Friday May 08, 2015 @03:05AM (#9510355)

Not to belittle their effort, but if you add the HDMI shield to the main board, you end up with a 24$ computer. That is pretty close to the RasPi 2.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by icefox on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:27AM (#9511554)

Except almost more interesting than the chip itself is the PocketChip which lets you easily swap the computers so not only could you upgrade to a faster chip when it comes out, but you could treat them as cartridge. At $9 a pop I could sell a game for the pocketchip for $20 and it just so happens that the game comes on a full blown computer. Combined with an open source design and you could have a number of different computers with different capabilities like star fox back in the day. If you need more of {X} you get the $12 chip, no wifi? $6 chip

This is what I have been on the watch for ever since the raspberry pi compute module came out for much more than I was expecting. The computer is no longer the expensive part, the display is.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by pantalaimon on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:34AM (#9510837)

There are many applications where you don't need HDMI.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by ericmo on Friday May 08, 2015 @01:47PM (#9513096)

Is this open source hardware as in RPi? Like, you can actually use the GPU, but shaders and everything else are closed source?

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by DonGateley on Friday May 08, 2015 @12:23AM (#9509950)

Yet another crowd funded wet dream.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by DominikD on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:56AM (#9510338)

And third link on HN with little to no interest since yesterday.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by Jugurtha on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:52PM (#9508931)

This looks nice..

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