#ALLWINNER A64 BOARDS FOR FREE#
Why bother developers community, where you don't intent to invest more then few free boards here and there and use our channels for free marketing? BTW: You can run your marketing campaign on your own website or wherever but here you need to ask for permission. SBC's are still hot stuff and hardware development become ridiculous cheap so it's a great way to make money.Īs I see you already made it to persuade investors. General public is easy to mislead to backup the project - general public aka kick-starter community is dumb as hell.
You're lucky guysīut in case you really want to provide a good 'Linux experience' there's a lot to do. But most people won't realise that since they focus on irrelevant metrics like "64 bit is twice as much as 32 bit" or "2 GB RAM is twice as much as 1 GB" or "15$ is less than $16" even if they can't tell how that really affects their use cases. It's GPU/VPU performance and the former definitely sucks (Mali400MP2 - old and slow). A good starting point when it's only about CPU performance is īut in your situation there's something special: Since you focus on Android CPU performance doesn't matter that much. Since the A64 is said to be able to be clocked up to 1.2 GHz I would suspect it's rather slow compared to other A53 designs and produced in an inefficient 28nm 40nm process) Then you probably realise the difference (Allwinner SoCs aren't fast but cheap. Unfortunately linux is a different story and you'll come across users that really like to benefit from the 'quad-core A53 at 1.2GHz' since you advertise this as an SBC.
Running Android you are able to use GPU/VPU with HW acceleration and the ARM cores aren't used that much.