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**CNX** · 22-12-18, 00:43

Several Amlogic S905X2 TV boxes have launched in recent months with models such as X96 Max or Beelink GT1 Mini, and if you’re the kind of user who mostly play videos from local storage as...

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Geeetech A20M Review – A Dual Extruder, Color Mixing 3D Printer
Hey Karl here with a 3D printer review. I know it has been a while for a printer review and grateful for Gearbest sending the review unit. They shipped me the Geeetech A20M a single nozzle, mixing,...

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 7nm Processor is Designed for Always-Connected PCs
The first day of Qualcomm Tech Summit focused on 5G technology, the second day revealed details about Snapdragon 855 mobile processor, and the third and last day was about Snapdragon 8cx Compute...

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PHYTEC phyCORE-AM65x SoM Features TI Sitara AM654x Processor
We already knew Texas Instruments was working on AM654 processor, the first 64-bit Arm SoC from the company, featuring four Cortex A53 cores, a PowerVR SGX544 GPU, dual lock-step capable Cortex R5F...

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**CNX** · 25-12-18, 00:51

Bluetooth 5 has been around for a while, but apart from MakerSpot CC2640 Bluetooth 5 USB dongle and Nordic Semi nRF52840 USB Dongle both for developers (and without case), it’s been hard to...

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Khadas Captain / Edge SBC Review – Part 2: Ubuntu 18.04
I received Khadas Edge Developer Package with Khadas Edge RK3399 module, Khadas Captain carrier board, and several accessories a few weeks ago, and after checking the hardware in the first part of...

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$100 Laptop Shell to Support Smartphones, USB Type-C PC Sticks, and SBCs (Crowdfunding)
Launched in 2011, Motorola Lapdock turned the company’s Atrix 4G smartphone into an Android laptop, but it did not end up being a commercial success so the company stopped manufacturing the...

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$6 C-SKY Linux Board Reviewed, Benchmarked
The price of single board computers and development boards has really gone down in recent years, and it’s easy to find a low cost Arm based board for most project. But C-SKY Linux development...

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ATOMIC Pi Intel Atom x5 Board Goes for $34 and Up (Crowdfunding)
Following Raspberry Pi form factor, AAEON Up Board powered by an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 processor launched in 2015 for 89 Euros and up via a crowdfunding campaign. Since then, the company switched to...

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Bluespec Flute is a 5-Stage Open Source RISC-V Processor
Bluespec is a US company that provides RISC-V processors and development tools that “speed integration, debugging and verification of embedded systems”. Their first RISC-V release was the...

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Intrinsyc Qualcomm Flight Pro Development Kit Targets High-end Drones and Robotics
Intrinsyc is known for manufacturing and selling mobile development platforms (MDP) & hardware development kits (HDK) for Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, but this time the company is taking...

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Onion Omega2 Pro OpenWrt Linux IoT Board Comes with 8GB Storage (Crowdfunding)
Onion Omega2 and Omega2 Plus are MediaTek MT7688 MIPS based WiFi boards for IoT applications that were launched in 2016 for as low as $5. Both boards run OpenWrt (LEDE at the time), and Omega2 Plus...

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Qualcomm 9205 NB-IoT & Cat M1 LTE Modem Lowers Costs, Power Consumption
Qualcomm has introduced a new LTE IoT chipset with Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem that supports Cat M1 (eMTC), NB2 (NB-IoT), 2G/E-GPRS fallback, as well as GNSS. Qualcomm 9205 comes at a lower price,...

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Amazon Echo Look Camera Goes for $50 with Intel Atom x5, RealSense Camera SR300
Amazon Echo Look is a smart camera with Alexa Assistant that was launched about 2 years ago for $200, and designed to help you decide if your outfit is a good match, beside taking photo and video...

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**CNX** · 25-12-18, 00:51

According to Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 specifications, the processor can support up to 16GB LPDDR4x memory, so we should be expecting phones with insane of RAM. The first device to features Snapdragon...

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Arm Cortex-A65AE Targets Safety-Critical Automotive, Aviation, and Industrial Automation Applications
Arm introduced their first “Automotive Enhanced” processor with Cortex-A76AE last September. The processor targets autonomous driving applications, and comes with extra safety features...

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Purism Librem 5 Linux phone development kits are now shipping
Purism Librem 5 is a privacy-focused open source Linux smartphone powered by NXP i.MX 8M processor that was launched via a crowdfunding campaign in August 2017 that ends up being extremely popular...

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$30 MX10 MINI TV Box Runs Android 9 on RK3328 Processor
Android 9.0 TV boxes based on Rockchip RK3328 processor started to become available at the end of last month for $45 and up, but if you’d like a cheaper Android 9 TV box either for playing...

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eduArdu is an Open Source Hardware Arduino Learning Board
Olimex has recently launched eduArdu, an open source hardware Arduino compatible board specifically designed for education with plenty of buttons, LEDs, and sensors, as well as tutorials and samples...

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Wave Computing to Open Source MIPS Architecture
There has been a lot of talks about RISC-V open source, royalty-free instructions set architecture this year, including the launch of RISC-V MCUs and Linux capable RISC-V processors, and...

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Kontron pITX-iMX8M Industrial Pico-ITX Motherboard is Powered by NXP i.MX8M Processor
We’ve had a fair amount of boards and modules based on NXP i.MX 8M dual or quad core Cortex A53 processor this year, including one pico-ITX motherboard with F&S Elektronik ArmStone MXM8...

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HOMTOM C1 Android Go Smartphone Sells for $65
Android Go is a lightweight version of Android operating system launched by Google targeting low end smartphones with the OS & apps optimized for low memory and storage. Smartphones with the...

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MIPI I3C Basic v1.0 Specification Released Publicly
The MIPI Alliance announced MIPI I3C sensor interface around 2 years ago, as a backward compatible update to the popular I2C interface with with lower power consumption, and much higher bitrate (up...

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GPD Pocket 2 Amber Black is a Cheaper Mini laptop with Celeron 3965Y Processor
GPD introduced their latest Pocket 2 mini laptop via a crowdfunding campaign last summer. The device packs a Intel Core m3-7y30 Kaby Lake processor coupled with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, as well as...

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**CNX** · 25-12-18, 00:51

Mediatek has launched another of their Helio P-series processor. We’ve gotten used to getting incremental improvements when it comes with CPU and GPU performance, but now companies are able to...

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BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) is an open source RV64G RISC-V core written in the Chisel hardware construction language, and mainly ASIC optimized. However, it is also usable on FPGAs, and...

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How to Upgrade Xiaomi Mi A2 to Android 9 Pie
I read Xiaomi Mi A2 got an official upgrade to Android 9 Pie in India around mid November. This got me interested in reviewing Xiaomi Mi A2 with the latest Android operating system, and GearBest sent...

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**CNX** · 28-12-18, 01:06

Zotac PI225 mini PC was launched last year with an Intel Celeron N3350 dual core ï¿½Apollo Lakeï¿½ processors, and its main feature was its form factor, as the computer is about the size and thickness of...

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SDTxArm Pelion Kit is a Modular IoT Devkit Designed for Arm Mbed Cloud Platform
South Korea based Sigma Delta Technologiesa€™ SDTxArm Pelion Kit is a modular development kit comprised of a baseboard, as well as CPU and interface modules that is specifically designed to work...

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NXP i.MX 6ULZ Cost Efficient Processor Drops Ethernet, Display, & Camera Interfaces
Freescale i.MX 6 processor was first announced in January 2011, and in the first few years I covered many products and development boards based on the single to quad core Cortex A9 processor. Further...

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Linux 4.20 Release ï¿½ Main Changes, Arm and MIPS Architectures
After Greg K-H handling Linux 4.19 release, Linus Torvalds is back at the helm, and released Linux 4.20 just before Christmas: Leta€™s face it, last week wasna€™t quite as quiet as I would...

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Banana Pi to Launch a 24-Core Arm Server
SinoVoIP has been offering Banana Pi single board computers for several years. Their boards are generally based on Arm processors, offered at a relatively decent price, although not as quite as good...

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Fomu FPGA board fits inside a USB port, Supports Python, RISC-V Softcore
Sutajio Ko-usagi launched Tomu, a tiny open source hardware USB board that fits inside a USB port at the very beginning of this year. The company is back with a similarly shaped board, but instead of...

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Khadas Captain / Edge SBC Review ï¿½ Part 2: Ubuntu 18.04
I received Khadas Edge Developer Package with Khadas Edge RK3399 module, Khadas Captain carrier board, and several accessories a few weeks ago, and after checking the hardware in the first part of...

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$100 Laptop Shell to Support Smartphones, USB Type-C PC Sticks, and SBCs (Crowdfunding)
Launched in 2011, Motorola Lapdock turned the companya€™s Atrix 4G smartphone into an Android laptop, but it did not end up being a commercial success so the company stopped manufacturing the...

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$6 C-SKY Linux Board Reviewed, Benchmarked
The price of single board computers and development boards has really gone down in recent years, and ita€™s easy to find a low cost Arm based board for most project. But C-SKY Linux development...

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ATOMIC Pi Intel Atom x5 Board Goes for $34 and Up (Crowdfunding)
Following Raspberry Pi form factor, AAEON Up Board powered by an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 processor launched in 2015 for 89 Euros and up via a crowdfunding campaign. Since then, the company switched to...

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**CNX** · 28-12-18, 01:06

Bluespec is a US company that provides RISC-V processors and development tools that a€œspeed integration, debugging and verification of embedded systemsa€. Their first RISC-V release was the...

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Intrinsyc Qualcomm Flight Pro Development Kit Targets High-end Drones and Robotics
Intrinsyc is known for manufacturing and selling mobile development platforms (MDP) & hardware development kits (HDK) for Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, but this time the company is taking...

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Onion Omega2 Pro OpenWrt Linux IoT Board Comes with 8GB Storage (Crowdfunding)
Onion Omega2 and Omega2 Plus are MediaTek MT7688 MIPS based WiFi boards for IoT applications that were launched in 2016 for as low as $5. Both boards run OpenWrt (LEDE at the time), and Omega2 Plus...

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Qualcomm 9205 NB-IoT & Cat M1 LTE Modem Lowers Costs, Power Consumption
Qualcomm has introduced a new LTE IoT chipset with Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem that supports Cat M1 (eMTC), NB2 (NB-IoT), 2G/E-GPRS fallback, as well as GNSS. Qualcomm 9205 comes at a lower price,...

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Amazon Echo Look Camera Goes for $50 with Intel Atom x5, RealSense Camera SR300
Amazon Echo Look is a smart camera with Alexa Assistant that was launched about 2 years ago for $200, and designed to help you decide if your outfit is a good match, beside taking photo and video...

More...

Arm Cortex-A65AE Targets Safety-Critical Automotive, Aviation, and Industrial Automation Applications
Arm introduced their first a€œAutomotive Enhanceda€ processor with Cortex-A76AE last September. The processor targets autonomous driving applications, and comes with extra safety features...

More...

Purism Librem 5 Linux phone development kits are now shipping
Purism Librem 5 is a privacy-focused open source Linux smartphone powered by NXP i.MX 8M processor that was launched via a crowdfunding campaign in August 2017 that ends up being extremely popular...

More...

$30 MX10 MINI TV Box Runs Android 9 on RK3328 Processor
Android 9.0 TV boxes based on Rockchip RK3328 processor started to become available at the end of last month for $45 and up, but if youa€™d like a cheaper Android 9 TV box either for playing...

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eduArdu is an Open Source Hardware Arduino Learning Board
Olimex has recently launched eduArdu, an open source hardware Arduino compatible board specifically designed for education with plenty of buttons, LEDs, and sensors, as well as tutorials and samples...

More...

Wave Computing to Open Source MIPS Architecture
There has been a lot of talks about RISC-V open source, royalty-free instructions set architecture this year, including the launch of RISC-V MCUs and Linux capable RISC-V processors, and...

More...

**CNX** · 28-12-18, 01:06

Wea€™ve had a fair amount of boards and modules based on NXP i.MX 8M dual or quad core Cortex A53 processor this year, including one pico-ITX motherboard with F&S Elektronik ArmStone MXM8...

More...

HOMTOM C1 Android Go Smartphone Sells for $65
Android Go is a lightweight version of Android operating system launched by Google targeting low end smartphones with the OS & apps optimized for low memory and storage. Smartphones with the...

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MIPI I3C Basic v1.0 Specification Released Publicly
The MIPI Alliance announced MIPI I3C sensor interface around 2 years ago, as a backward compatible update to the popular I2C interface with with lower power consumption, and much higher bitrate (up...

More...

GPD Pocket 2 Amber Black is a Cheaper Mini laptop with Celeron 3965Y Processor
GPD introduced their latest Pocket 2 mini laptop via a crowdfunding campaign last summer. The device packs a Intel Core m3-7y30 Kaby Lake processor coupled with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, as well as...

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**CNX** · 31-12-18, 01:12

If you want to add an extra screen to your laptop, wea€™ve previously covered DUO add-on display, a full HD 12.5a€³ display that can be placed on the left or the right of the display, and it...

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Millitronic MG360 is a WiGig 802.11ad USB Adapter
802.11ad was announced in 2016 as a new WiFi standard supporting 60 GHz frequency and up to 7 Gbps throughput, but it has recently been superseded by the backward compatible but further improved...

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Khadas Edge Review a€“ Part 3: Android 7.0 Preview
Hey Karl here with a look at a preview of Android on the Khadas edge. Jean-luc has done 2 parts already. The first one looking at the hardware side, and a second looking at Ubuntu. A third img is...

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ClockworkPi Gameshell Review a€“ Part 1: Unboxing & Assembly Guide
ClockworkPi Gameshell is a portable retro gaming console kit designed to be hackable being powered by Allwinner R16 processor to run Linux, as well as an Arduino compatible Atmel AVR MCU. Ita€™s...

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SDTxArm Pelion Kit is a Modular IoT Devkit Designed for Arm Mbed Cloud Platform
South Korea based Sigma Delta Technologiesa€™ SDTxArm Pelion Kit is a modular development kit comprised of a baseboard, as well as CPU and interface modules that is specifically designed to work...

More...

NXP i.MX 6ULZ Cost Efficient Processor Drops Ethernet, Display, & Camera Interfaces
Freescale i.MX 6 processor was first announced in January 2011, and in the first few years I covered many products and development boards based on the single to quad core Cortex A9 processor. Further...

More...

Linux 4.20 Release a€“ Main Changes, Arm and MIPS Architectures
After Greg K-H handling Linux 4.19 release, Linus Torvalds is back at the helm, and released Linux 4.20 just before Christmas: Leta€™s face it, last week wasna€™t quite as quiet as I would...

More...

Banana Pi to Launch a 24-Core Arm Server
SinoVoIP has been offering Banana Pi single board computers for several years. Their boards are generally based on Arm processors, offered at a relatively decent price, although not as quite as good...

More...

Fomu FPGA board fits inside a USB port, Supports Python, RISC-V Softcore
Sutajio Ko-usagi launched Tomu, a tiny open source hardware USB board that fits inside a USB port at the very beginning of this year. The company is back with a similarly shaped board, but instead of...

More...

Khadas Captain / Edge SBC Review a€“ Part 2: Ubuntu 18.04
I received Khadas Edge Developer Package with Khadas Edge RK3399 module, Khadas Captain carrier board, and several accessories a few weeks ago, and after checking the hardware in the first part of...

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**CNX** · 31-12-18, 01:12

Launched in 2011, Motorola Lapdock turned the companya€™s Atrix 4G smartphone into an Android laptop, but it did not end up being a commercial success so the company stopped manufacturing the...