TopJoy Falcon Review – A Windows 10 Mini Laptop (Prototype)
The Topjoy Falcon is a mini laptop reminiscent of netbooks and similar to the recent GPD Pocket 2 or One Mix Yoga devices. Marketed as an 8 inch (203mm) pocket-sized computer with the following...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Rockchip PX30 Processor Powers Android 8.1 Car Infotainment Systems
Rockchip RK3326 and RK3308 are the first Arm Cortex A35 processors from the company, and are designed for smart AI solutions such as smart speakers and smart displays. It turns out RK3326 processor...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STLink V3 Modular Debugger & Programmer for STM32/STM8 Adds I2C, SPI, CAN Interfaces
STLink is the in-circuit debugger and programmer for STMicro STM32 and STM8 micro-control working with SWIM and JTAG/SWD interfaces. ST Microelectronics has now introduced STLink V3 which also...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Particle Unveils Mesh SoMs and IoT Developer Tools
Earlier this year, Particle unveiled three IoT development boards based on nRF52840 Bluetooth 5/802.15.4 WiSoC and supporting Particle Mesh, which interestingly is not based on Bluetooth Mesh or even...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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La Frite Amlogic S805X Board Runs Mainline Linux, Goes for $5 and Up (Crowdfunding)
Libre Computer first started with their AML-S905X-CC (aka Le Potato) board powered by Amlogic S905X processor last year, and they’ve since then launched several other boards based on Allwinner...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Pi Supply IoT LoRa Boards are made for Raspberry Pi & BBC Micro:bit Boards (Crowdfunding)
We’ve already covered plenty of LoRa boards or solutions designed for nodes or gateways such as TTGO T-Beam ESP32 + LoRa board, RAK Wireless RAK811 GPS Lora tracker board, MatchX Matchbox LoRa...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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THEC64 Mini Small Commodore C64 Replica is Now for Sale for $80
Mini versions of retro computers and game consoles are now really a thing. After Nintendo NES Classic / SNES Classic, and Sony PlayStation Classic announcement, all of which are smaller versions of...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink X55 Review – Part 2, Take 2: New Drivers and BIOS
When I reviewed the Beelink X55 earlier, I encountered poor graphics performance when testing the device with its ‘Out-Of-The-Box’ configuration. As a quick reminder the Beelink X55 is a NUC-style...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K Ultra HD Android TV Set-top Box Launched for $59.99
Xiaomi Mi Box (US/International) was so far the most affordable solution if you wanted a full Android TV experience, and the box is part of our best TV boxes list for under $100. But the company has...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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AAEON UPC-GWS01 is Tiny IoT Gateway Powered by UP Core Board
AAEON’s UP Core is an affordable and compact Intel Atom x5-Z8350 based board that was launched last year on Kickstarter for 69 Euros and up. The company has now integrated the board into at...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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wESP32 ESP32 Board Supports “Isolated” PoE (Crowdfunding)
Olimex introduced their ESP32-POE board a few months ago, and started selling it for 17.50 Euros last month, but it’s always good to have more options and Silicongnition has designed another...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink X55 Review – An Intel Gemini Lake mini PC Tested with Windows 10 and Linux
The Beelink X55 is very similar in style to Intel’s NUC7PJYH NUC reviewed earlier except that it is not a kit but a fully functional Windows mini PC. It is physically small consisting of an...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Amazon Launches $50 Fire TV Stick 4K Powered by MediaTek MT8695 SoC
Amazon introduced their latest 4K streaming device with Fire TV (2017) last year. The TV box was based on Amlogic S905Z, supported 4K HDR10, and was launched for $69.99. The company also had a Fire...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Tiny NanoPi Duo2 Board Comes with WiFi, a Camera Interface, an Optiona
NanoPi Duo was launched last year as an ultra-cheap ($8+) Arm Linux board that fits into a breadboard. The board was powered by Allwinner H2+ processor coupled with 256 or 512MB RAM, and the infamous...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sipeed M1 RISC-V Computer Vision Module Features Kendryte K210 Processor
Just a few days ago, I wrote about Kendryte KD233 board featuring Kendryte K210 dual core RISC-V processor, with some fairly detailed documentation, public links to toolchains and other tools. and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STMicro Introduces the First STM8 Nucleo Boards, STM8 Arduino IDE Support
While development boards based on STMicro STM8 8-bit MCU such as the “one dollar board” or the official STM8 Discovery boards have been around for several years, STMicro had yet to...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Comparison of S905X, S905X2, and S905Y2 Processors Specifications
We’ve known the main features of Amlogic S905Y2 and S905X2 processors namely an upgrade to an Arm Mali-G31MP2 GPU with OpenGLES 3.1, and support for USB 3. since last month, and TV boxes...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi A1’s eMMC Flash Storage Failing after One Year?
Xiaomi Mi A1 Android One smartphone has been my main and only phone since last October, and I’ve been pretty satisfied with it with monthly firmware updates, and the smartphone performing as I...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Geniatech XPI-S905X Board Leverages Raspberry Pi 3 Form Factor
Geniatech is well known in the media player industry for their Amlogic based TV boxes, but in recent years, they’ve also launched some development board from other silicon vendors such as...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$50 Kendryte KD233 Board Features K210 Dual Core RISC-V SoC
RISC-V is talked about a lot, and we’re started to see a few development boards coming to market, or at least being announced with some based on SiFive processors such as HiFive Unleashed or...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NXP Unveils i.MX RT600 Series Arm Cortex-M33 + Audio DSP Crossover Processor
A little over a year ago, NXP introduces their first crossover processor that blurs the line between real-time capabilities of microcontrollers and higher performance of application processors with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink GT1 MINI S905X2 TV Box Ships with a Voice Air Mouse
We’ve previously seen new TV boxes based on Amlogic S905X2 and S905Y2 processors, which mostly brings a more recent, but not necessarily more powerful, Mali-G31 GPU with OpenGL 3.2 support, and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Raspberry Pi TV HAT Adds a DVB-T2 Tuner to Raspberry Pi Boards
The Raspberry Pi foundation has just launched another official HAT for their maker boards with the Raspberry Pi TV HAT based on Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, and is equipped a DVB-T2/T tuner in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STMicro STM32L5 Cortex-M33 ARMv8-M MCU Family Targets Secure IoT Appli
STMicro STM32 microcontrollers have so far been based on Arm Cortex-M0/M0+, M3, M4, or M7 cores, although we’ve also seen a yet-to-be formally announced Cortex A7 variant show up in Linux 4.17...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Socionext HV5 Series HDMI 2.1 Video Processing ICs Enable 8K TVs and STBs
HDMI 2.1 specification was released late last year with the main benefit being the support of 8K videos at up to 120 Hz, and a small downside with the requirement for new 48G cables. Samsung Q900R...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm QCA64x8 and QCA64x1 802.11ay WiFi Chipsets Deliver 10 Gbps Bandwidth
WiFi has evolved in recent years with the introduction of 802.11ad and 802.11ax (now called WiFi 6). THe latter is now official, and in the last year several 802.11ax chipsets and WiFi 6 routers have...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm ServerReady is a Compliance Program for Arm-based Servers
The Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification was unveiled in 2014 in order to standardize all Arm based servers and let them all run the same operating system images. However so far,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2 Yoga Intel Core m3-7Y30 mini Laptop is up for Pre-order for $650
GPD Pocket 2 Kaby lake mini laptop is getting some competition with One Mix 2 Yoga pocket laptop featuring the same Intel Core M3-7Y30 processor, but coupled with 8GB RAM, and a 256 SSD, and equipped...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Rockchip PX30 Processor Powers Android 8.1 Car Infotainment Systems
Rockchip RK3326 and RK3308 are the first Arm Cortex A35 processors from the company, and are designed for smart AI solutions such as smart speakers and smart displays. It turns out RK3326 processor...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STLink V3 Modular Debugger & Programmer for STM32/STM8 Adds I2C, SPI, CAN Interfaces
STLink is the in-circuit debugger and programmer for STMicro STM32 and STM8 micro-control working with SWIM and JTAG/SWD interfaces. ST Microelectronics has now introduced STLink V3 which also...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Particle Unveils Mesh SoMs and IoT Developer Tools
Earlier this year, Particle unveiled three IoT development boards based on nRF52840 Bluetooth 5/802.15.4 WiSoC and supporting Particle Mesh, which interestingly is not based on Bluetooth Mesh or even...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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La Frite Amlogic S805X Board Runs Mainline Linux, Goes for $5 and Up (Crowdfunding)
Libre Computer first started with their AML-S905X-CC (aka Le Potato) board powered by Amlogic S905X processor last year, and they’ve since then launched several other boards based on Allwinner...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Pi Supply IoT LoRa Boards are made for Raspberry Pi & BBC Micro:bit Boards (Crowdfunding)
We’ve already covered plenty of LoRa boards or solutions designed for nodes or gateways such as TTGO T-Beam ESP32 + LoRa board, RAK Wireless RAK811 GPS Lora tracker board, MatchX Matchbox LoRa...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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THEC64 Mini Small Commodore C64 Replica is Now for Sale for $80
Mini versions of retro computers and game consoles are now really a thing. After Nintendo NES Classic / SNES Classic, and Sony PlayStation Classic announcement, all of which are smaller versions of...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink X55 Review – Part 2, Take 2: New Drivers and BIOS
When I reviewed the Beelink X55 earlier, I encountered poor graphics performance when testing the device with its ‘Out-Of-The-Box’ configuration. As a quick reminder the Beelink X55 is a NUC-style...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K Ultra HD Android TV Set-top Box Launched for $59.99
Xiaomi Mi Box (US/International) was so far the most affordable solution if you wanted a full Android TV experience, and the box is part of our best TV boxes list for under $100. But the company has...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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AAEON UPC-GWS01 is Tiny IoT Gateway Powered by UP Core Board
AAEON’s UP Core is an affordable and compact Intel Atom x5-Z8350 based board that was launched last year on Kickstarter for 69 Euros and up. The company has now integrated the board into at...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Geniatech XPI-S905X Board Leverages Raspberry Pi 3 Form Factor
Geniatech is well known in the media player industry for their Amlogic based TV boxes, but in recent years, they’ve also launched some development board from other silicon vendors such as...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$50 Kendryte KD233 Board Features K210 Dual Core RISC-V SoC
RISC-V is talked about a lot, and we’re started to see a few development boards coming to market, or at least being announced with some based on SiFive processors such as HiFive Unleashed or...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NXP Unveils i.MX RT600 Series Arm Cortex-M33 + Audio DSP Crossover Processor
A little over a year ago, NXP introduces their first crossover processor that blurs the line between real-time capabilities of microcontrollers and higher performance of application processors with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink GT1 MINI S905X2 TV Box Ships with a Voice Air Mouse
We’ve previously seen new TV boxes based on Amlogic S905X2 and S905Y2 processors, which mostly brings a more recent, but not necessarily more powerful, Mali-G31 GPU with OpenGL 3.2 support, and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Raspberry Pi TV HAT Adds a DVB-T2 Tuner to Raspberry Pi Boards
The Raspberry Pi foundation has just launched another official HAT for their maker boards with the Raspberry Pi TV HAT based on Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, and is equipped a DVB-T2/T tuner in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Socionext HV5 Series HDMI 2.1 Video Processing ICs Enable 8K TVs and STBs
HDMI 2.1 specification was released late last year with the main benefit being the support of 8K videos at up to 120 Hz, and a small downside with the requirement for new 48G cables. Samsung Q900R...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm QCA64x8 and QCA64x1 802.11ay WiFi Chipsets Deliver 10 Gbps Bandwidth
WiFi has evolved in recent years with the introduction of 802.11ad and 802.11ax (now called WiFi 6). THe latter is now official, and in the last year several 802.11ax chipsets and WiFi 6 routers have...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm ServerReady is a Compliance Program for Arm-based Servers
The Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification was unveiled in 2014 in order to standardize all Arm based servers and let them all run the same operating system images. However so far,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2 Yoga Intel Core m3-7Y30 mini Laptop is up for Pre-order for $650
GPD Pocket 2 Kaby lake mini laptop is getting some competition with One Mix 2 Yoga pocket laptop featuring the same Intel Core M3-7Y30 processor, but coupled with 8GB RAM, and a 256 SSD, and equipped...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Rockchip PX30 Processor Powers Android 8.1 Car Infotainment Systems
Rockchip RK3326 and RK3308 are the first Arm Cortex A35 processors from the company, and are designed for smart AI solutions such as smart speakers and smart displays. It turns out RK3326 processor...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STLink V3 Modular Debugger & Programmer for STM32/STM8 Adds I2C, SPI,
STLink is the in-circuit debugger and programmer for STMicro STM32 and STM8 micro-control working with SWIM and JTAG/SWD interfaces. ST Microelectronics has now introduced STLink V3 which also...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Particle Unveils Mesh SoMs and IoT Developer Tools
Earlier this year, Particle unveiled three IoT development boards based on nRF52840 Bluetooth 5/802.15.4 WiSoC and supporting Particle Mesh, which interestingly is not based on Bluetooth Mesh or even...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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La Frite Amlogic S805X Board Runs Mainline Linux, Goes for $5 and Up (Crowdfunding)
Libre Computer first started with their AML-S905X-CC (aka Le Potato) board powered by Amlogic S905X processor last year, and they’ve since then launched several other boards based on Allwinner...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Pi Supply IoT LoRa Boards are made for Raspberry Pi & BBC Micro:bit Boards (Crowdfunding)
We’ve already covered plenty of LoRa boards or solutions designed for nodes or gateways such as TTGO T-Beam ESP32 + LoRa board, RAK Wireless RAK811 GPS Lora tracker board, MatchX Matchbox LoRa...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sigfox Introduces Access Station Micro Sigfox Gateway
There are plenty of long range LPWAN standards for the Internet of Things, but the most common ones include LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and Sigfox. LoRaWAN lead the way in terms of deployments, while NB-IoT and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2S Yoga Amber Lake “Pocket” Laptop Up for pre-order for $720 and up
One Mix 2 Yoga mini Laptop powered by a Kaby Lake Core-m3 processor may have launched just about 10 days ago, but the company is now already taking pre-orders for One Mix 2S Yoga mini portable...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$94 MAKERphone DIY Mobile Phone Supports MicroPython, Arduino IDE, and Scratch (Crowdfunding)
If you ever wanted to buy a mobile phone that you can assemble yourself, RePhone Kit Ctreate going for $59 is a nice option, but in truth it does not exactly look like your typical phone with its...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio P70 Launched as an Upgrade to Helio P60 Processor
MediaTek Helio P60 processor was introduced earlier this year as one of the first Arm Cortex A73 processors from the company, and also integrated NeuroPilot AI technology for faster or more complex...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Embedded Recipes 2018 Videos and Slides Released
Embedded Recipes 2018 happened in Mozilla building in Paris, France on September 24 & 25, where developers talked about “open source solutions in the embedded world: developer, contributor,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$16 ESP32-A1S ESP32 Audio Development Kit Comes with 2 Microphones, Audio Jacks & Headers
Espressif ESP32 WiSoC can be integrated into various applications, and earlier this year Espressif Systems released ESP32 LyraTD MSC Audio Mic HDK (Hardware Development Kit) which I could test with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 Cortex-A76 based Processor Targets High-Tier Mid-Range Smartphones
Last August, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 670 processor with performance and efficiency Kryo 360 cores believed to be based on Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 cores, but the company has just announced an...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Linux 4.19 Release – Main Changes, Arm and MIPS Architectures
With Linus Torvalds taking a leave from the Linux kernel project, Greg Kroah-Hartman was the one to release Linux 4.19 last Sunday: Hi everyone! It’s been a long strange journey for this kernel...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sipeed M1 RISC-V Computer Vision Module Features Kendryte K210 Processor
Just a few days ago, I wrote about Kendryte KD233 board featuring Kendryte K210 dual core RISC-V processor, with some fairly detailed documentation, public links to toolchains and other tools. and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STMicro Introduces the First STM8 Nucleo Boards, STM8 Arduino IDE Support
While development boards based on STMicro STM8 8-bit MCU such as the “one dollar board” or the official STM8 Discovery boards have been around for several years, STMicro had yet to...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Comparison of S905X, S905X2, and S905Y2 Processors Specifications
We’ve known the main features of Amlogic S905Y2 and S905X2 processors namely an upgrade to an Arm Mali-G31MP2 GPU with OpenGLES 3.1, and support for USB 3. since last month, and TV boxes...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi A1’s eMMC Flash Storage Failing after One Year?
Xiaomi Mi A1 Android One smartphone has been my main and only phone since last October, and I’ve been pretty satisfied with it with monthly firmware updates, and the smartphone performing as I...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$50 Kendryte KD233 Board Features K210 Dual Core RISC-V SoC
RISC-V is talked about a lot, and we’re started to see a few development boards coming to market, or at least being announced with some based on SiFive processors such as HiFive Unleashed or...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NXP Unveils i.MX RT600 Series Arm Cortex-M33 + Audio DSP Crossover Processor
A little over a year ago, NXP introduces their first crossover processor that blurs the line between real-time capabilities of microcontrollers and higher performance of application processors with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink GT1 MINI S905X2 TV Box Ships with a Voice Air Mouse
We’ve previously seen new TV boxes based on Amlogic S905X2 and S905Y2 processors, which mostly brings a more recent, but not necessarily more powerful, Mali-G31 GPU with OpenGL 3.2 support, and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Raspberry Pi TV HAT Adds a DVB-T2 Tuner to Raspberry Pi Boards
The Raspberry Pi foundation has just launched another official HAT for their maker boards with the Raspberry Pi TV HAT based on Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, and is equipped a DVB-T2/T tuner in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Socionext HV5 Series HDMI 2.1 Video Processing ICs Enable 8K TVs and STBs
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Qualcomm QCA64x8 and QCA64x1 802.11ay WiFi Chipsets Deliver 10 Gbps Bandwidth
WiFi has evolved in recent years with the introduction of 802.11ad and 802.11ax (now called WiFi 6). THe latter is now official, and in the last year several 802.11ax chipsets and WiFi 6 routers have...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arm ServerReady is a Compliance Program for Arm-based Servers
The Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification was unveiled in 2014 in order to standardize all Arm based servers and let them all run the same operating system images. However so far,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2 Yoga Intel Core m3-7Y30 mini Laptop is up for Pre-order for $650
GPD Pocket 2 Kaby lake mini laptop is getting some competition with One Mix 2 Yoga pocket laptop featuring the same Intel Core M3-7Y30 processor, but coupled with 8GB RAM, and a 256 SSD, and equipped...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Rockchip PX30 Processor Powers Android 8.1 Car Infotainment Systems
Rockchip RK3326 and RK3308 are the first Arm Cortex A35 processors from the company, and are designed for smart AI solutions such as smart speakers and smart displays. It turns out RK3326 processor...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2 Yoga Intel Core m3-7Y30 mini Laptop is up for Pre-order for
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Particle Mesh IoT Development Kit Review – Part 1: Unboxing
Back in February of this year, Particle introduced three low cost IoT development boards based on Nordic Semi nRF52840 wireless chip supporting “Particle Mesh” networking based on the...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Nubia X Dual Screen Smartphone Drops the Selfie Camera
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SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and U7 series
SiFive has recently announced their Core IP 7 Series of RISC-V cores offering better performance, and designed to enable “embedded intelligence” in applications such as 5G, networking,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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H96 Max X2 Amlogic S905X2 TV Box with 4GB RAM, 32GB Storage Sold for $49.99 (Promo)
We’ve recently started seeing TV boxes based on the latest Amlogic S905X2 processor that offers slightly better speeds, USB 3.0, and several other improvements over Amlogic S905X. Models...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Shelly H&T is a Battery Powered ESP8266 WiFi Temperature & Humidity Sensor
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96Boards IoT Edition IVY5661 Board Features UniSoC UWP5661 WiFi 5 + Bluetooth 5 SoC
If you ever wanted to start a new IoT project with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, you’d like think about using Espressif ESP32 WiSoC that supports single band 802.11 b/g/n WiFi (WiFi 4) and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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One Mix 2S Yoga Amber Lake “Pocket” Laptop Up for pre-order for $720 and up
One Mix 2 Yoga mini Laptop powered by a Kaby Lake Core-m3 processor may have launched just about 10 days ago, but the company is now already taking pre-orders for One Mix 2S Yoga mini portable...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$94 MAKERphone DIY Mobile Phone Supports MicroPython, Arduino IDE, and Scratch (Crowdfunding)
If you ever wanted to buy a mobile phone that you can assemble yourself, RePhone Kit Ctreate going for $59 is a nice option, but in truth it does not exactly look like your typical phone with its...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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MediaTek Helio P70 Launched as an Upgrade to Helio P60 Processor
MediaTek Helio P60 processor was introduced earlier this year as one of the first Arm Cortex A73 processors from the company, and also integrated NeuroPilot AI technology for faster or more complex...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Embedded Recipes 2018 Videos and Slides Released
Embedded Recipes 2018 happened in Mozilla building in Paris, France on September 24 & 25, where developers talked about “open source solutions in the embedded world: developer, contributor,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$16 ESP32-A1S ESP32 Audio Development Kit Comes with 2 Microphones, Au
Espressif ESP32 WiSoC can be integrated into various applications, and earlier this year Espressif Systems released ESP32 LyraTD MSC Audio Mic HDK (Hardware Development Kit) which I could test with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 Cortex-A76 based Processor Targets High-Tier Mid-Range Smartphones
Last August, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 670 processor with performance and efficiency Kryo 360 cores believed to be based on Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 cores, but the company has just announced an...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Linux 4.19 Release – Main Changes, Arm and MIPS Architectures
With Linus Torvalds taking a leave from the Linux kernel project, Greg Kroah-Hartman was the one to release Linux 4.19 last Sunday: Hi everyone! It’s been a long strange journey for this kernel...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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STMicro Introduces the First STM8 Nucleo Boards, STM8 Arduino IDE Support
While development boards based on STMicro STM8 8-bit MCU such as the “one dollar board” or the official STM8 Discovery boards have been around for several years, STMicro had yet to...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Xiaomi Mi A1’s eMMC Flash Storage Failing after One Year?
Xiaomi Mi A1 Android One smartphone has been my main and only phone since last October, and I’ve been pretty satisfied with it with monthly firmware updates, and the smartphone performing as I...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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$50 Kendryte KD233 Board Features K210 Dual Core RISC-V SoC
RISC-V is talked about a lot, and we’re started to see a few development boards coming to market, or at least being announced with some based on SiFive processors such as HiFive Unleashed or...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NXP Unveils i.MX RT600 Series Arm Cortex-M33 + Audio DSP Crossover Processor
A little over a year ago, NXP introduces their first crossover processor that blurs the line between real-time capabilities of microcontrollers and higher performance of application processors with...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Beelink GT1 MINI S905X2 TV Box Ships with a Voice Air Mouse
We’ve previously seen new TV boxes based on Amlogic S905X2 and S905Y2 processors, which mostly brings a more recent, but not necessarily more powerful, Mali-G31 GPU with OpenGL 3.2 support, and...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Raspberry Pi TV HAT Adds a DVB-T2 Tuner to Raspberry Pi Boards
The Raspberry Pi foundation has just launched another official HAT for their maker boards with the Raspberry Pi TV HAT based on Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, and is equipped a DVB-T2/T tuner in...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Socionext HV5 Series HDMI 2.1 Video Processing ICs Enable 8K TVs and STBs
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Qualcomm QCA64x8 and QCA64x1 802.11ay WiFi Chipsets Deliver 10 Gbps Ba
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ModBerry M2000 Industrial Computer Features UP Squared Apollo Lake Boa
TECHBASE has been providing DIN rail mountable Arm and x86 based Modberry industrial computers / IoT gateways for several years. The company has now upgraded ModBerry M1000 model with an Intel Cherry...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Giveaway Week – CHOETECH 24W Foldable Solar Charger
The second item for this giveaway week won’t really be a maker product, although you could probably integrate it in your solar powered project, but it should be useful mostly for hiking or...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Khadas Edge RK3399/RK3399Pro Board Crowdfunding Campaign Launched
Khadas Edge is another upcoming Rockchip RK3399 board that we initially covered this summer, and comes with a particular design in the sense it is both a single board computer with USB and Ethernet...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Arduino Support for Quectel BC66 NB-IoT Module
Quectel has several LTE IoT modules such as BG96 with NB-IoT + eMTC connectivity, but the company has also a smaller, cheaper NB-IoT only module called Quectel BC66, and Georgi Angelov (Wiz-IO)...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Giveaway Week – Videostrong VS-RD-RK3399 Development Board
That’s the time of the year for another Giveway Week on CNX Software. They will be some development boards, add-on boards, and one gadget. You’ll have to keep reading this blog everyday...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Singles’ Day 2018 Promotions on GearBest, Aliexpress, GeekBuying, Banggood…
Taking place every year in China on November 11, Singles’ Day is the equivalent of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US with shops offering large discounts on various products. The good news...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Nubia X Dual Screen Smartphone Drops the Selfie Camera
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SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and U7 series
SiFive has recently announced their Core IP 7 Series of RISC-V cores offering better performance, and designed to enable “embedded intelligence” in applications such as 5G, networking,...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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H96 Max X2 Amlogic S905X2 TV Box with 4GB RAM, 32GB Storage Sold for $49.99 (Promo)
We’ve recently started seeing TV boxes based on the latest Amlogic S905X2 processor that offers slightly better speeds, USB 3.0, and several other improvements over Amlogic S905X. Models...[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Shelly H&T is a Battery Powered ESP8266 WiFi Temperature & Humidity Sensor
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