Over the past few months, a number of companies as well as designers have started picking up the newest Intel SoCs. Intel has to kill ARM somehow, right? the current of these single board x86 computers is the Lattepanda. It’s a small board that can run whatever a 5-year-old desktop computer can run, including a full version of Windows 10.
This isn’t the very first time we’ve seen a small x86 board in recent months. Last October, an x86 board that takes style cues from the Raspberry Pi 2 hit Kickstarter. These are appropriate PCs, with the capability to run Windows 10, Linux, as well as just about every other atmosphere under the sun.
The specs for the Lattepanda include a quad-core Cherry path running at 1.8GHz. the RAM is either 2GB or 4GB depending on configuration, as well as 32GB of eMMC Flash. Peripherals include USB 3.0, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, as well as integrated graphics supporting either HDMI or a DSI connector.
But of program a computer is just a computer, as well as you can’t offer a maker that only runs Skype to the ‘maker’ market. The Lattepanda likewise includes an ATMega32u4 as a coprocessor, giving this board ‘Arduino functionality’. In my day we walked uphill both ways to get a parallel port, however I digress.
While these small x86 boards may not be offered in a year’s time, as well as the companies behind them may autumn off the face of the planet, the introduction of these devices portends a fantastic war over the horizon. Intel wants the low-power SoC market, a area up until now reserved completely for ARM-based devices.