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96Boards hardware development platforms support add-on boards called Mezzanines, and you’ll find a bunch of them on 96Boards website. Most are designed and manufactured by companies, but in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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XU4Q Retro Gaming System Runs ODROID GameStation Turbo, Sells for $150 and Up
One of the use case for little Arm Linux boards is retro gaming thanks to open source projects like RetroPie, RetrOrangePi, Lakka, and others. To get a complete & usable system, it’s...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel NUC Kit NUC7PJYH Review – An Intel Gemini Lake Pentium Silver J5005 Barebone Mini PC
When Intel released their latest NUC Gemini Lake mini PCs they prioritized cost over performance. As a result the processor they chose for the ‘Intel NUC 7 Essential’ mini PC is somewhat...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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YC-CDA19Q is an 8-Port Quick Charge 3.0 Capable USB Charger with a Display Showing Power Consumption
USB charger doctor is a cheap and easy way to monitor the voltage and current from a USB 2.0 port or charger, but you may have more than one device to monitor, and USB 3.0 type C ports as well as...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Wi-Fi EasyMesh is a Standard for WiFi Mesh Networking
It’s been possible for add multiple WiFi routers and/or WiFi repeaters in order to provide good coverage in a house / building for years, so this required some manual configuration. So in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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A lot of efforts is going into distributed ledger technologies like the blockchain, and while I keep hearing blockchain is the future, there’s a lot of hype, and so far I have not seen that... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ACEPC GK1 is an Intel Celeron N4100 mini PC Cooled by a Fan
Last year, we shortly reviewed ACEPC AK1 mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 Apollo Lake processor, and greatly inspired from HP Elite Slice enclosure design. The company is now back with a... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UP AI Edge Enables Artificial Intelligence on the Edge with Intel CPU, GPU, VPU and FPGA Solutions (Crowdfunding)
Back in February of this year, AAEON introduced their UP AI Edge family of products with UP AI Core mini PCIe card based on Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit), and UP Core Plus... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Router 4 is a $60 AC1200 Router with Three Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Xiaomi Mi Router 3 AC1200 router based on Mediatek MT7620A processor was launched in 2016 for just under $40 on online retailers. It had at least one caveat however, since it only supported Fast... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Android 8.1 Firmware and SDK Released for Orange Pi 4G-IoT Board
When Orange Pi 4G-IoT board launched a few months ago, it shipped with a not so recent Android 6.0 operating system. But the good news is that Shenzhen Xunlong Software has now released Android 8.1... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink S2 Gemini Lake Mini PC Comes with an Intel Pentium N5000 Silver Processor, 8GB RAM, a 128GB SSD
I’ve written about Beelink S2 mini PC based on Intel Celeron N4100 Gemini Lake processor several times, simply because the motherboard appears to be used in other OEM models including Alfawise... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ESP8266 based ANAVI Light Controller can be Programmed with Home Assistant or the Arduino IDE (Crowdfunding)
ANAVI Technology previously launched a Light pHAT allowing for RGB Light strip connection to Raspberry Pi boards, and during my review of ANAVI Light pHAT with Raspberry Pi 2, it did the job, but if... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 Brings AI To Mid-Range Smartphones
Neural processing units (NPU) – also called Neural network accelerators (NNA) – can now be found in all premium smartphone SoCs in order to assist with artificial intelligence... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyELEC Launches a Rockchip RK3399 SBC for $129. Meet NanoPC-T4
Earlier this year, we have a number of SBCs based on Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor from Orange Pi RK3399 to ODROID-N1, or Pine64 RockPro64 boards. FriendlyELEC has joined the fray with their... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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A Closer Look at Mediatek MT8516 Cortex A35 SoM / Devkit for Android Things
Earlier this month, Google released Android Things 1.0, the first stable release for the IoT operating system, and announced several certified SoMs (systems-on-module) based on NXP i.MX 8M, Qualcomm... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Another day, another Gemini Lake mini PC, with CHUWI GBox which has just been listed on GearBest for pre-order for $239.99 plus shipping. The device features Intel Celeron N4100 quad core processor,... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio P22 SoC for “Mid Range Premium” Smartphones Relies on 12nm Manufacturing Process
MediaTek already has plenty of Arm Cortex A53 processors in their portfolio, but with MediaTek Helio P22 they’ve now added another one. One of the selling point of the new processor is that it... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Circumference Datacentre-in-a-Box Features up to 32 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Managed by a UDOO x86 Ultra Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously seen several clusters made of Raspberry Pi boards with a 16 RPi Zero cluster prototype, or BitScope Blade with 40 Raspberry Pi boards. The latter now even offers solutions for... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sonoff S26 WiFi Smart Plug Works in All/Most Countries, Sells for under $10
One recurring issue with smart plugs / sockets is that they are often designed with a specific prong type, so if you want to use them in our country you may have to add an adapter, which may not be... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ESP32-Sense Kit Lets You Experiment with ESP32 Touch Interface
Beside support for Bluetooth, one the other extra benefits of Espressif ESP32 over ESP8266 is the presence of a touch interface in the newer processor. If you are interested in that specific... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ZiP (zGlue Integration Platform) Enables the Design & Manufacturing of Low Cost Custom Chips
When I first started to read about zOrigin on Crowdsupply, I was not really impressed. Meh… Yet another Bluetooth LE fitness tracker with a few sensors, and an Android app. But as I read... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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R-TV BOX S10+ is an Android 8.1 TV Box with a Built-in Qi Wireless Charger
A couple of years ago we wrote about ECS Live Station, an Intel Bay Trail mini PC with an integrated wireless charger that can be used to charge any compatible smartphone. But as I was checking out... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Spreadtrum SC9863 Octa-core Cortex A55 Processor is Made for LTE Smartphones
Arm unveiled Cortex A55 cores about a year ago, and while we have seen the new cores combined with Cortex 75-class cores in premium smartphone processors such as Exynos 9810 SoC, I had yet to see a... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UMIDIGI Z2 Pro is one of the first Smartphones based on MediaTek Helio P60 SoC
MediaTek unveiled Helio P60 Cortex A73/A53 processor with AI HW acceleration a few months ago, and we were promised smartphones would start selling in Q2 2018. Mediatek’s partners seem to be... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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HP t430 Thin client Works with a Single USB Cable
Gemini Lake mini PCs are starting to sell and ship, and from the look of it, HP t430 appears to be yet another Gemini Lake mini PC based on an Intel Celeron N4000 processor. But the device is... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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If you don’t like getting tracked or see ads, it’s normally easy enough to install an ad blocker plugin in your web browser. But if you want to save some resources on your computer(s)... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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XU4Q Retro Gaming System Runs ODROID GameStation Turbo, Sells for $150 and Up
One of the use case for little Arm Linux boards is retro gaming thanks to open source projects like RetroPie, RetrOrangePi, Lakka, and others. To get a complete & usable system, it’s... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel NUC Kit NUC7PJYH Review – An Intel Gemini Lake Pentium Silver J5005 Barebone Mini PC
When Intel released their latest NUC Gemini Lake mini PCs they prioritized cost over performance. As a result the processor they chose for the ‘Intel NUC 7 Essential’ mini PC is somewhat... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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SinoVoIP has launched many development boards & SBCs under the Banana Pi brands, but so far they had not designed any system-on-modules (SoM). Banana Pi BPI-S64 Core is their first SoM, which...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sony SPRESENSE Arduino Compatible GNSS + Audio IoT Board To Sell for $50 (in Japan)
Last year, we covered Sony Spritzer, an Arduino compatible with a Sony hexa-core Arm Cortex-M4F micro-controller, a built-in GNSS receiver, and an audio codec. The product page for this product is...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Launches Optane DC Persistent Memory Compatible with DDR4 DIMMs
Intel and Micron jointly announced 3D Xpoint technology in 2015 that promised to be 1,000 times faster and endurant than NAND flash, and 10 times denser than conventional DRAM. Products were launched...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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My Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch is Dead – Postmortem Analysis
Back in November 2016, I connected Sonoff TH16 WiFi switch to my water pump, and since then it worked fairly well, except for the occasional “offline error” in eWelink app, which was...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MakerSpot CC2640 is a $20 Bluetooth 5 LE USB Dongle
Bluetooth 5 was announced in May 2016 with four times the range, twice the speed of Bluetooth 4.0. Since then SoCs, development boards, and smartphones have been announced with Bluetooth 5, but so...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 is a Dedicated eXtended reality (XR) platform For XR / VR Headset
Qualcomm has unveiled its first Snapdragon XR platform specifically designed for extended / augmented / virtual reality headsets during a launch event leading up to the Augmented World Expo (AWE)....[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Run Windows Programs on Android Devices with ExaGear Windows Emulator App
In recent years, there have been efforts to run apps on operating systems they were not designed to run on. For example, Microsoft added Windows Subsystem for Linux to support Linux command line...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Orange Pi 3G-IoT SBC Launched for $24.90
We had two Arm Linux SBCs with cellular connectivity from Shenzhen Xunlong so far: Orange Pi 2G-IoT for 2G connectivity, and Orange Pi 4G-IoT with LTE support in Asia and Europe. But what if you...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Vivo Y83 Mid-Range Smartphone Features MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) Processor with AI Acceleration
Last week, MediaTek unveiled their Helio P22 SoC for “mid range premium” smartphones manufactured with a 12nm FinFET process, and equipped with hardware blocks to accelerate artificial intelligence...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ACEPC GK1 is an Intel Celeron N4100 mini PC Cooled by a Fan
Last year, we shortly reviewed ACEPC AK1 mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 Apollo Lake processor, and greatly inspired from HP Elite Slice enclosure design. The company is now back with a...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Back in February of this year, AAEON introduced their UP AI Edge family of products with UP AI Core mini PCIe card based on Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU (Vision Processing Unit), and UP Core Plus...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Router 4 is a $60 AC1200 Router with Three Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Xiaomi Mi Router 3 AC1200 router based on Mediatek MT7620A processor was launched in 2016 for just under $40 on online retailers. It had at least one caveat however, since it only supported Fast...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Android 8.1 Firmware and SDK Released for Orange Pi 4G-IoT Board
When Orange Pi 4G-IoT board launched a few months ago, it shipped with a not so recent Android 6.0 operating system. But the good news is that Shenzhen Xunlong Software has now released Android 8.1...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink S2 Gemini Lake Mini PC Comes with an Intel Pentium N5000 Silver Processor, 8GB RAM, a 128GB SSD
I’ve written about Beelink S2 mini PC based on Intel Celeron N4100 Gemini Lake processor several times, simply because the motherboard appears to be used in other OEM models including Alfawise...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ESP8266 based ANAVI Light Controller can be Programmed with Home Assistant or the Arduino IDE (Crowdfunding)
ANAVI Technology previously launched a Light pHAT allowing for RGB Light strip connection to Raspberry Pi boards, and during my review of ANAVI Light pHAT with Raspberry Pi 2, it did the job, but if...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 Brings AI To Mid-Range Smartphones
Neural processing units (NPU) – also called Neural network accelerators (NNA) – can now be found in all premium smartphone SoCs in order to assist with artificial intelligence...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyELEC Launches a Rockchip RK3399 SBC for $129. Meet NanoPC-T4
Earlier this year, we have a number of SBCs based on Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor from Orange Pi RK3399 to ODROID-N1, or Pine64 RockPro64 boards. FriendlyELEC has joined the fray with their...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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A Closer Look at Mediatek MT8516 Cortex A35 SoM / Devkit for Android Things
Earlier this month, Google released Android Things 1.0, the first stable release for the IoT operating system, and announced several certified SoMs (systems-on-module) based on NXP i.MX 8M, Qualcomm...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio P22 SoC for “Mid Range Premium” Smartphones Relies on 12nm Manufacturing Process
MediaTek already has plenty of Arm Cortex A53 processors in their portfolio, but with MediaTek Helio P22 they’ve now added another one. One of the selling point of the new processor is that it...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Circumference Datacentre-in-a-Box Features up to 32 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Managed by a UDOO x86 Ultra Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously seen several clusters made of Raspberry Pi boards with a 16 RPi Zero cluster prototype, or BitScope Blade with 40 Raspberry Pi boards. The latter now even offers solutions for...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ITEAD Studio very recently launched their Sonoff S26 WiFi Smart plug as a more compact and cost effective upgrade to their Sonoff S20 smart sockets, and which comes in 6 different versions for China,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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My Attempt at Getting Started with Zephyr Project OS on ESP32
Zephyr Project is a real-time operating systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) that was introduced in early 2016, and supported/hosted by the Linux Foundation. It runs on a fairly large number of...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UDOO BOLT AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 SBC Goes for $229 and Up (Crowdfunding)
While Intel has been outing low cost and low power processors with less than 10W TDP over the years with their Bay Trail, Cherry Trail, Braswell, Apollo Lake, and now Gemini Lake processors, AMD has...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Allwinner T2 is a Rebranded Allwinner A20 Processor Operating in Industrial Temperature Range
Last month, Allwinner unveiled A40 and A60 industrial and military grade processors leveraging IP blocks from the old-but-popular Allwinner A20 dual core processor. This is good news for software...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm Announces Cortex-A76 CPU with Laptop-class Performance, Mali-G76 GPU, Mali-V76 8K VPU
Arm Cortex A75 based processors are only found in a few SoCs and devices, but Arm keeps on innovating, and they’ve now announced a new suite of of IP with Cortex-A76 CPU enabling 35 percent...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sony SPRESENSE Arduino Compatible GNSS + Audio IoT Board To Sell for $50 (in Japan)
Last year, we covered Sony Spritzer, an Arduino compatible with a Sony hexa-core Arm Cortex-M4F micro-controller, a built-in GNSS receiver, and an audio codec. The product page for this product is...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Launches Optane DC Persistent Memory Compatible with DDR4 DIMMs
Intel and Micron jointly announced 3D Xpoint technology in 2015 that promised to be 1,000 times faster and endurant than NAND flash, and 10 times denser than conventional DRAM. Products were launched...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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My Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch is Dead – Postmortem Analysis
Back in November 2016, I connected Sonoff TH16 WiFi switch to my water pump, and since then it worked fairly well, except for the occasional “offline error” in eWelink app, which was...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MakerSpot CC2640 is a $20 Bluetooth 5 LE USB Dongle
Bluetooth 5 was announced in May 2016 with four times the range, twice the speed of Bluetooth 4.0. Since then SoCs, development boards, and smartphones have been announced with Bluetooth 5, but so...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 is a Dedicated eXtended reality (XR) platform For XR / VR Headset
Qualcomm has unveiled its first Snapdragon XR platform specifically designed for extended / augmented / virtual reality headsets during a launch event leading up to the Augmented World Expo (AWE)....[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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In recent years, there have been efforts to run apps on operating systems they were not designed to run on. For example, Microsoft added Windows Subsystem for Linux to support Linux command line...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Orange Pi 3G-IoT SBC Launched for $24.90
We had two Arm Linux SBCs with cellular connectivity from Shenzhen Xunlong so far: Orange Pi 2G-IoT for 2G connectivity, and Orange Pi 4G-IoT with LTE support in Asia and Europe. But what if you...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Vivo Y83 Mid-Range Smartphone Features MediaTek Helio P22 (MT6762) Processor with AI Acceleration
Last week, MediaTek unveiled their Helio P22 SoC for “mid range premium” smartphones manufactured with a 12nm FinFET process, and equipped with hardware blocks to accelerate artificial intelligence...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ACEPC GK1 is an Intel Celeron N4100 mini PC Cooled by a Fan
Last year, we shortly reviewed ACEPC AK1 mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 Apollo Lake processor, and greatly inspired from HP Elite Slice enclosure design. The company is now back with a...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Router 4 is a $60 AC1200 Router with Three Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Xiaomi Mi Router 3 AC1200 router based on Mediatek MT7620A processor was launched in 2016 for just under $40 on online retailers. It had at least one caveat however, since it only supported Fast...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Android 8.1 Firmware and SDK Released for Orange Pi 4G-IoT Board
When Orange Pi 4G-IoT board launched a few months ago, it shipped with a not so recent Android 6.0 operating system. But the good news is that Shenzhen Xunlong Software has now released Android 8.1...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink S2 Gemini Lake Mini PC Comes with an Intel Pentium N5000 Silver Processor, 8GB RAM, a 128GB SSD
I’ve written about Beelink S2 mini PC based on Intel Celeron N4100 Gemini Lake processor several times, simply because the motherboard appears to be used in other OEM models including Alfawise...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ESP8266 based ANAVI Light Controller can be Programmed with Home Assistant or the Arduino IDE (Crowdfunding)
ANAVI Technology previously launched a Light pHAT allowing for RGB Light strip connection to Raspberry Pi boards, and during my review of ANAVI Light pHAT with Raspberry Pi 2, it did the job, but if...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 Brings AI To Mid-Range Smartphones
Neural processing units (NPU) – also called Neural network accelerators (NNA) – can now be found in all premium smartphone SoCs in order to assist with artificial intelligence...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyELEC Launches a Rockchip RK3399 SBC for $129. Meet NanoPC-T4
Earlier this year, we have a number of SBCs based on Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor from Orange Pi RK3399 to ODROID-N1, or Pine64 RockPro64 boards. FriendlyELEC has joined the fray with their...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Earlier this month, Google released Android Things 1.0, the first stable release for the IoT operating system, and announced several certified SoMs (systems-on-module) based on NXP i.MX 8M, Qualcomm...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio P22 SoC for “Mid Range Premium” Smartphones Relies on 12nm Manufacturing Process
MediaTek already has plenty of Arm Cortex A53 processors in their portfolio, but with MediaTek Helio P22 they’ve now added another one. One of the selling point of the new processor is that it...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Circumference Datacentre-in-a-Box Features up to 32 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Managed by a UDOO x86 Ultra Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously seen several clusters made of Raspberry Pi boards with a 16 RPi Zero cluster prototype, or BitScope Blade with 40 Raspberry Pi boards. The latter now even offers solutions for...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Github is by far the most popular web-based hosting service for version control using Git, but it’s not the only option as Gitlab and Bitbucket offer alternatives. If for whatever reasons, you...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS VivoWatch BP is a Fitness Tracker that Measures Blood Pressure
If you need to monitor your blood pressure regularly, you may have used one of those blood pressure monitors that you wraps around your upper arm, and display results on an LCD display, and in some...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Linux 4.17 Release – Main Changes, Arm & MIPS Architectures
Linus Torvalds released Linux 4.17 last Sunday: So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend approached. And...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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RAK831 Lite is a $200 LoRa / LoRaWAN Gateway based on Raspberry Pi 3 Board
RAK831 is a Semtech SX1301 based LoRa gateway module that was released by RakWireless in 2017. The board has since then be sold as part of the company’s LoRa gateway developer kit with a...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS Announces 802.11ax WiFi Routers at Computex 2018
802.11ax is a new WiFi standard offering better performance, especially in high-density scenario, where average per usage bandwidth may be improved by up to 4 times, so city dwellers should benefit...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 is Designed for Windows 10 Mobile PCs
As you all probably know, Qualcomm and Microsoft worked together and launched always-on, always-connected Windows 10 mobile PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Arm processor earlier this year....[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Xavier Devkit and Isaac Robotics Software
NVIDIA Xavier was first unveiled in September 2016 as an artificial intelligence SoC with eight NVIDIA Custom 64-bit Arm cores, a 512-core Volta GPU, 8K video encoding and decoding, and a computer...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Firefly Core-PX3-SEJ SoM Features Rockchip PX3-SE Industrial-Grade Processor
Allwinner is not the only Chinese fabless silicon vendor to offer industrial grade processors, as Rockchip PX3 SE quad core Cortex A7 processor can also operate in the industrial temperature range...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UM25C is a Better USB Power Meter with built-in Display, Bluetooth, and Android & Windows Apps
Products such as USB Charger Doctor are good way to test your USB chargers or cables, as well as checking the power consumption of USB powered development boards. You just plug them into a USB port,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tibbo-Pi is a Wirefree Modular IoT Prototyping Platform for Raspberry Pi Board
Tibbo Project System (TPS) is a modular Linux IoT prototyping platform based on the same Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x processor used in BeagleBone Black or a PocketBeagle boards, and comprised of...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Zephyr Project is a real-time operating systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) that was introduced in early 2016, and supported/hosted by the Linux Foundation. It runs on a fairly large number of...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UDOO BOLT AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 SBC Goes for $229 and Up (Crowdfunding)
While Intel has been outing low cost and low power processors with less than 10W TDP over the years with their Bay Trail, Cherry Trail, Braswell, Apollo Lake, and now Gemini Lake processors, AMD has...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Allwinner T2 is a Rebranded Allwinner A20 Processor Operating in Industrial Temperature Range
Last month, Allwinner unveiled A40 and A60 industrial and military grade processors leveraging IP blocks from the old-but-popular Allwinner A20 dual core processor. This is good news for software...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm Announces Cortex-A76 CPU with Laptop-class Performance, Mali-G76 GPU, Mali-V76 8K VPU
Arm Cortex A75 based processors are only found in a few SoCs and devices, but Arm keeps on innovating, and they’ve now announced a new suite of of IP with Cortex-A76 CPU enabling 35 percent...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sony SPRESENSE Arduino Compatible GNSS + Audio IoT Board To Sell for $50 (in Japan)
Last year, we covered Sony Spritzer, an Arduino compatible with a Sony hexa-core Arm Cortex-M4F micro-controller, a built-in GNSS receiver, and an audio codec. The product page for this product is...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Launches Optane DC Persistent Memory Compatible with DDR4 DIMMs
Intel and Micron jointly announced 3D Xpoint technology in 2015 that promised to be 1,000 times faster and endurant than NAND flash, and 10 times denser than conventional DRAM. Products were launched...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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My Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch is Dead – Postmortem Analysis
Back in November 2016, I connected Sonoff TH16 WiFi switch to my water pump, and since then it worked fairly well, except for the occasional “offline error” in eWelink app, which was...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MakerSpot CC2640 is a $20 Bluetooth 5 LE USB Dongle
Bluetooth 5 was announced in May 2016 with four times the range, twice the speed of Bluetooth 4.0. Since then SoCs, development boards, and smartphones have been announced with Bluetooth 5, but so...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 is a Dedicated eXtended reality (XR) platform For XR / VR Headset
Qualcomm has unveiled its first Snapdragon XR platform specifically designed for extended / augmented / virtual reality headsets during a launch event leading up to the Augmented World Expo (AWE)....[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Orange Pi 3G-IoT SBC Launched for $24.90
We had two Arm Linux SBCs with cellular connectivity from Shenzhen Xunlong so far: Orange Pi 2G-IoT for 2G connectivity, and Orange Pi 4G-IoT with LTE support in Asia and Europe. But what if you...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Last week, MediaTek unveiled their Helio P22 SoC for “mid range premium” smartphones manufactured with a 12nm FinFET process, and equipped with hardware blocks to accelerate artificial intelligence...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ACEPC GK1 is an Intel Celeron N4100 mini PC Cooled by a Fan
Last year, we shortly reviewed ACEPC AK1 mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 Apollo Lake processor, and greatly inspired from HP Elite Slice enclosure design. The company is now back with a...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Router 4 is a $60 AC1200 Router with Three Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Xiaomi Mi Router 3 AC1200 router based on Mediatek MT7620A processor was launched in 2016 for just under $40 on online retailers. It had at least one caveat however, since it only supported Fast...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Android 8.1 Firmware and SDK Released for Orange Pi 4G-IoT Board
When Orange Pi 4G-IoT board launched a few months ago, it shipped with a not so recent Android 6.0 operating system. But the good news is that Shenzhen Xunlong Software has now released Android 8.1...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The first AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 development board – UDOO Bolt – was launched on Kickstarter last week, but for whatever reasons, the company did not provide close up photos of the... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio M70 5G Modem to Launch in 2019
5G cellular technology is now being tested, and the first deployment should start next year (2019) in some countries. We’ve also seen 5G cellular modems or 5G capable SoCs with products such as... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Imagination Unveils PowerVR AX2185 and AX2145 Neural Network Accelerators (NNA)
Imagination Technologies introduced PowerVR Series2NX neural network accelerator (NNA) last year. At the time, the company claimed the NNA would deliver twice the performance at half the bandwidth... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyElec Launches Smart6818 Samsung S5P6818 CPU Module
Yesterday, we covered Core4418 low profile board based on Samsung S5P4418 quad core Cortex A9 processor, but that’s not the only product launched by FriendlyElec this week, as the company also... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tigo S300 480GB SSD is Now Offered for $79.99 (Promo)
I would consider purchasing a computer without SSD anymore, at least to install the operating system, and store things like email databases and web caches, since it makes a huge differences in terms... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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SMOS DeX Station is a $40 DeX Pad Alternative for Samsung Galaxy S8, S9, & Note 8, and Other USB Type C Phones
DeX is the “Desktop Experience” on some premium Samsung Galaxy phones that allow you to run apps on an HDMI display or TV through Samsung Dex Pad that sells for $75 and up. But if you... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyELEC Core4418 is a Low Profile Samsung S5P4418 Board
Samsung (Nexell) S5P4418 & S5P6818 quad/octa core Cortex A9 processors used to have dismal Linux support with a very old & unsecure Linux 3.4 kernel, but in the last year or so software... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Vorke V5 Plus mini PC Sold for $199.99 (Promo)
Vorke V5? Plus?? is a mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron 3865U dual core Kaby Lake processor coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. Ian Morrison (Linuxium) reviewed the computer in “Vorke V5... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Unihertz Atom is an Android 8.1 Phone with a Tiny 2.4? Display (Crowdfunding)
What we used to call phablet – smartphones with 5″ to 6″ display – are now simply called smartphones, as most companies now offer smartphones with larger displays since they... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS VivoWatch BP is a Fitness Tracker that Measures Blood Pressure
If you need to monitor your blood pressure regularly, you may have used one of those blood pressure monitors that you wraps around your upper arm, and display results on an LCD display, and in some... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Linus Torvalds released Linux 4.17 last Sunday: So this last week was pretty calm, even if the pattern of most of the stuff coming in on a Friday made it feel less so as the weekend approached. And... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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RAK831 Lite is a $200 LoRa / LoRaWAN Gateway based on Raspberry Pi 3 Board
RAK831 is a Semtech SX1301 based LoRa gateway module that was released by RakWireless in 2017. The board has since then be sold as part of the company’s LoRa gateway developer kit with a... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS Announces 802.11ax WiFi Routers at Computex 2018
802.11ax is a new WiFi standard offering better performance, especially in high-density scenario, where average per usage bandwidth may be improved by up to 4 times, so city dwellers should benefit... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 is Designed for Windows 10 Mobile PCs
As you all probably know, Qualcomm and Microsoft worked together and launched always-on, always-connected Windows 10 mobile PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Arm processor earlier this year.... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Xavier Devkit and Isaac Robotics Software
NVIDIA Xavier was first unveiled in September 2016 as an artificial intelligence SoC with eight NVIDIA Custom 64-bit Arm cores, a 512-core Volta GPU, 8K video encoding and decoding, and a computer... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Firefly Core-PX3-SEJ SoM Features Rockchip PX3-SE Industrial-Grade Processor
Allwinner is not the only Chinese fabless silicon vendor to offer industrial grade processors, as Rockchip PX3 SE quad core Cortex A7 processor can also operate in the industrial temperature range... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UM25C is a Better USB Power Meter with built-in Display, Bluetooth, and Android & Windows Apps
Products such as USB Charger Doctor are good way to test your USB chargers or cables, as well as checking the power consumption of USB powered development boards. You just plug them into a USB port,... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tibbo-Pi is a Wirefree Modular IoT Prototyping Platform for Raspberry Pi Board
Tibbo Project System (TPS) is a modular Linux IoT prototyping platform based on the same Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x processor used in BeagleBone Black or a PocketBeagle boards, and comprised of... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UDOO BOLT AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 SBC Goes for $229 and Up (Crowdfunding)
While Intel has been outing low cost and low power processors with less than 10W TDP over the years with their Bay Trail, Cherry Trail, Braswell, Apollo Lake, and now Gemini Lake processors, AMD has... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Allwinner T2 is a Rebranded Allwinner A20 Processor Operating in Industrial Temperature Range
Last month, Allwinner unveiled A40 and A60 industrial and military grade processors leveraging IP blocks from the old-but-popular Allwinner A20 dual core processor. This is good news for software... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm Cortex A75 based processors are only found in a few SoCs and devices, but Arm keeps on innovating, and they’ve now announced a new suite of of IP with Cortex-A76 CPU enabling 35 percent... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sony SPRESENSE Arduino Compatible GNSS + Audio IoT Board To Sell for $50 (in Japan)
Last year, we covered Sony Spritzer, an Arduino compatible with a Sony hexa-core Arm Cortex-M4F micro-controller, a built-in GNSS receiver, and an audio codec. The product page for this product is... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Launches Optane DC Persistent Memory Compatible with DDR4 DIMMs
Intel and Micron jointly announced 3D Xpoint technology in 2015 that promised to be 1,000 times faster and endurant than NAND flash, and 10 times denser than conventional DRAM. Products were launched... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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My Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch is Dead – Postmortem Analysis
Back in November 2016, I connected Sonoff TH16 WiFi switch to my water pump, and since then it worked fairly well, except for the occasional “offline error” in eWelink app, which was... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MakerSpot CC2640 is a $20 Bluetooth 5 LE USB Dongle
Bluetooth 5 was announced in May 2016 with four times the range, twice the speed of Bluetooth 4.0. Since then SoCs, development boards, and smartphones have been announced with Bluetooth 5, but so... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 is a Dedicated eXtended reality (XR) platform For XR / VR Headset
Qualcomm has unveiled its first Snapdragon XR platform specifically designed for extended / augmented / virtual reality headsets during a launch event leading up to the Augmented World Expo (AWE).... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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If you ever plan to make your own NAS with an Arm Linux board, the Raspberry Pi board should not be your first choice, as regular readers will already know they are already cheaper and/or better... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ECS Introduces GLKD-I DC Powered Gemini Lake Motherboard Family
Except for the odd industrial motherboard, most Gemini Lake motherboards launched so far rely on an ATX connector and power supply, but if you prefer a DC powered Gemini Lake motherboard, ECS now... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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LM-902 USB3.1 Gen2 to NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD Enclosure Sells for $43
Yesterday, I wrote about ASMedia ASM2362 USB 3.1 Gen2 to PCIe NVMe SSD chip that will allow for connecting NVMe SSD into (largish) USB stick enclosures delivering up to 10 Gbps raw throughput. The... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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e-con Systems Introduces a 4K Multi-Camera System for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 Boards
Last year, e-con Systems launched a 360° Camera Kit for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 boards that featured 6 cameras capable of recording or streaming 1080p30 each in real-time. The company is now back with... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASM2362 USB 3.1 Gen2 to PCIe Chip is Designed for USB NVMe SSD Drives
Most USB enclosure or expansion drive are designed with a SATA interface that tops out at 6 Gbp. That’s fine in most cases, but if your host computer comes with USB 3.1 Gen2 SuperSpeed 10 Gbps... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Celeron N4100 Powered Jumper EZbook X4 Laptop Goes for $300 (Promo)
We’ve previously seen Gemini Lake laptops for sale or pre-order from China, but with pricing that often was much higher than expected for $400, $500 or even more. There’s now a promotion... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Zidoo X20 High-End 4K Media Player Launched for $486 and Up
Unveiled last January, Zidoo X20 Pro is a high-end Android + Linux (OpenWrt) media player powered by Realtek RTD1296 media processor, and equipped with three HDMI ports, two SATA bays, ES9038... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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IC Nexus SBC3100 Rockchip RK3399 SBC Supports Variable DC Input (9 to 36V)
Earlier this year, we got flooded with announcements for new Rockchip RK3399 SBC’s or development boards with products like RockPro64 or Orange Pi RK3399. Here’s another one launched last... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio M70 5G Modem to Launch in 2019
5G cellular technology is now being tested, and the first deployment should start next year (2019) in some countries. We’ve also seen 5G cellular modems or 5G capable SoCs with products such as... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Imagination Unveils PowerVR AX2185 and AX2145 Neural Network Accelerators (NNA)
Imagination Technologies introduced PowerVR Series2NX neural network accelerator (NNA) last year. At the time, the company claimed the NNA would deliver twice the performance at half the bandwidth... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Yesterday, we covered Core4418 low profile board based on Samsung S5P4418 quad core Cortex A9 processor, but that’s not the only product launched by FriendlyElec this week, as the company also... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tigo S300 480GB SSD is Now Offered for $79.99 (Promo)
I would consider purchasing a computer without SSD anymore, at least to install the operating system, and store things like email databases and web caches, since it makes a huge differences in terms... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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SMOS DeX Station is a $40 DeX Pad Alternative for Samsung Galaxy S8, S9, & Note 8, and Other USB Type C Phones
DeX is the “Desktop Experience” on some premium Samsung Galaxy phones that allow you to run apps on an HDMI display or TV through Samsung Dex Pad that sells for $75 and up. But if you... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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FriendlyELEC Core4418 is a Low Profile Samsung S5P4418 Board
Samsung (Nexell) S5P4418 & S5P6818 quad/octa core Cortex A9 processors used to have dismal Linux support with a very old & unsecure Linux 3.4 kernel, but in the last year or so software... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Vorke V5 Plus mini PC Sold for $199.99 (Promo)
Vorke V5? Plus?? is a mini PC powered by an Intel Celeron 3865U dual core Kaby Lake processor coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. Ian Morrison (Linuxium) reviewed the computer in “Vorke V5... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Unihertz Atom is an Android 8.1 Phone with a Tiny 2.4? Display (Crowdfunding)
What we used to call phablet – smartphones with 5″ to 6″ display – are now simply called smartphones, as most companies now offer smartphones with larger displays since they... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS VivoWatch BP is a Fitness Tracker that Measures Blood Pressure
If you need to monitor your blood pressure regularly, you may have used one of those blood pressure monitors that you wraps around your upper arm, and display results on an LCD display, and in some... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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RAK831 Lite is a $200 LoRa / LoRaWAN Gateway based on Raspberry Pi 3 Board
RAK831 is a Semtech SX1301 based LoRa gateway module that was released by RakWireless in 2017. The board has since then be sold as part of the company’s LoRa gateway developer kit with a... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASUS Announces 802.11ax WiFi Routers at Computex 2018
802.11ax is a new WiFi standard offering better performance, especially in high-density scenario, where average per usage bandwidth may be improved by up to 4 times, so city dwellers should benefit... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 is Designed for Windows 10 Mobile PCs
As you all probably know, Qualcomm and Microsoft worked together and launched always-on, always-connected Windows 10 mobile PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Arm processor earlier this year.... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NVIDIA Xavier was first unveiled in September 2016 as an artificial intelligence SoC with eight NVIDIA Custom 64-bit Arm cores, a 512-core Volta GPU, 8K video encoding and decoding, and a computer... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Firefly Core-PX3-SEJ SoM Features Rockchip PX3-SE Industrial-Grade Processor
Allwinner is not the only Chinese fabless silicon vendor to offer industrial grade processors, as Rockchip PX3 SE quad core Cortex A7 processor can also operate in the industrial temperature range... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UM25C is a Better USB Power Meter with built-in Display, Bluetooth, and Android & Windows Apps
Products such as USB Charger Doctor are good way to test your USB chargers or cables, as well as checking the power consumption of USB powered development boards. You just plug them into a USB port,... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tibbo-Pi is a Wirefree Modular IoT Prototyping Platform for Raspberry Pi Board
Tibbo Project System (TPS) is a modular Linux IoT prototyping platform based on the same Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x processor used in BeagleBone Black or a PocketBeagle boards, and comprised of... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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UDOO BOLT AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 SBC Goes for $229 and Up (Crowdfunding)
While Intel has been outing low cost and low power processors with less than 10W TDP over the years with their Bay Trail, Cherry Trail, Braswell, Apollo Lake, and now Gemini Lake processors, AMD has... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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AAEON has announced three add-on boards for their Intel based UP board (Cherry Trail) and UP Squared board (Apollo Lake): UP-AUDIO HAT – Features external ports for a microphone and... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Digitize Handwritten Notes with a $10 LCD Writing Pad and CamScanner App
Despite writing about high-tech technology with processors, software, IoT, artificial intelligence news everyday, I’m still very much a pen and paper kind of guy when it comes to taking notes.... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ALLDOCUBE KNote5 Gemini Lake Tablet Runs Windows 10 on a 11.6? Display
Intel Gemini Lake processors have already been seen in several mini PCs such as Intel June Canyon NUCs, as well as some laptops from Acer, Jumper, and others, but ALLDOBUCE brings us what looks to be... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ESP8266 RGB LED Strip Control with ANAVI Light Controller, Arduino, MQTT, and HTML5
A few months ago I reviewed ANAVI Light pHat for Raspberry Pi which allows you to control an LED RGB strip from the popular development board. However, if all you need is to switch the RGB LED light... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Allwinner T7 Automotive SoC Complies with AEC-Q100 Grade 3 Specifications
Allwinner T-series processors such as Allwinner T2 are designed for the transportation / automotive market for products like smart rear-view mirrors, infotainment systems, and navigation systems.... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ModBerry M500 Industrial Computer Upgraded to Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with PoE Support
TECHBASE has been making modular industrial computers based on hobbyist boards for several years with products like ModBerry? M300 IoT Gateway. ModBerry M500 is another of their model, powered by a... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Wemos LOLIN D32 Pro ESP32 Board Supports TFT Displays, Comes with a micro SD Card Slot
Wemos is popular for their low cost WiFi board based on Espressif SoCs. Their most popular board is ESP8266 based Wemos D1 mini thanks to its compact form factor, low price ($5 shipped), and... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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SPIDriver Tool Allows you to Control and Monitor SPI Devices from your Computer (Crowdfunding)
SPIDriver is an interested SPI debugging / programming tool that connect to your PC’s USB port to control SPI devices, such as LCD Displays or LED strips, while showing the SPI signals and... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Hikey 970 Documentation, HiAI DDK, Linux Firmware Images, and Support Forums
Hikey 970 board has impressive specifications with Huawei Kirin 970 SoC featuring an octa-core Arm Cortex A73/A53 processor and an Arm Mali-G72-MP12 GPU, coupled with 6GB LPDDR4x and 64GB UFS... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Easythreed NANO Mini Fully Assembled 3D Printer Sells for $160
If you plan on getting started with 3D printing, you’ll already find some decent low cost 3D printers on the market such as Anet A8 that is now selling for around $150 plus shipping. However,... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Seeed Studio launched a family of GPS tracker boards staring with Wio GPS with 2G cellular connectivity, followed by Wio LTE board offering 4G connectivity several months later. The company is taking... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NanoCOM-APL Apollo Lake COM Express Module is Designed for Machine Vision & Factory Automation
AAEON has just launched NanoCOM-APL, a Type 10 COM Express module based on Intel Apollo Lake Atom, Celeron, or Pentium processor with up to 8 LPDDR4 memory, and on-board support for dual MIPI CSI... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$9 SQ8 may be the World’s Smallest Car Dash Camera / Action Camera
There are so many car dash DVRs and action cameras on the market that barely differentiate themselves on the market that I don’t usually write about those anymore. But SQ8 “mini car video... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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LiveStream #1 – Migrating to Marlin Firmware
Karl here. I’ve decided to start doing a weekly Livestream on different topics related to subjects covered on CNX Software. For the fist livestream, I will be showing the workflow that I use to... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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LM-902 USB3.1 Gen2 to NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD Enclosure Sells for $43
Yesterday, I wrote about ASMedia ASM2362 USB 3.1 Gen2 to PCIe NVMe SSD chip that will allow for connecting NVMe SSD into (largish) USB stick enclosures delivering up to 10 Gbps raw throughput. The... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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e-con Systems Introduces a 4K Multi-Camera System for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 Boards
Last year, e-con Systems launched a 360° Camera Kit for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 boards that featured 6 cameras capable of recording or streaming 1080p30 each in real-time. The company is now back with... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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ASM2362 USB 3.1 Gen2 to PCIe Chip is Designed for USB NVMe SSD Drives
Most USB enclosure or expansion drive are designed with a SATA interface that tops out at 6 Gbp. That’s fine in most cases, but if your host computer comes with USB 3.1 Gen2 SuperSpeed 10 Gbps... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel Celeron N4100 Powered Jumper EZbook X4 Laptop Goes for $300 (Promo)
We’ve previously seen Gemini Lake laptops for sale or pre-order from China, but with pricing that often was much higher than expected for $400, $500 or even more. There’s now a promotion... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Zidoo X20 High-End 4K Media Player Launched for $486 and Up
Unveiled last January, Zidoo X20 Pro is a high-end Android + Linux (OpenWrt) media player powered by Realtek RTD1296 media processor, and equipped with three HDMI ports, two SATA bays, ES9038... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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IC Nexus SBC3100 Rockchip RK3399 SBC Supports Variable DC Input (9 to 36V)
Earlier this year, we got flooded with announcements for new Rockchip RK3399 SBC’s or development boards with products like RockPro64 or Orange Pi RK3399. Here’s another one launched last... [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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