Banana Pi launches new Raspberry Pi alternative SBC with octa-core ARM CPU and plenty of connectivity
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One the one hand, an 8 core ARM chip with all E cores interests me from a "maybe this can be passively cooled, but have enough horsepower to be useful" standpoint.
On the other hand, looks like it's made on a 22nm process, so while cost will hopefully be low, power savings will be limited.
On the third hand, the A55 is a 2017 core, and I'm getting really tired of ARM's strategy of dribbling out designs at an absolutely glacial pace to the lower end of the market.
All interesting points.
I suppose the use-case for stuff like this is always-on devices that have requirements for intermittent (and short) periods of max performance.
Never heard of the Banana Pi, very cool.