Intel’s competitor to the Raspberry Pi

31st July 2013

Intel are working in conjunction with CircuitCo to develop a low cost, embedded-type motherboard which is being based around the low power Atom Processor called the MinnowBoard. The board is being marketed as a fun and hobbyist friendly board which looks to be a competitor of the Raspberry Pi.

The board will be using Intel Architecture but the hardware will be open and will be running Angstrom Linux Distro which is an open-source Operating System.

The specifications of the MinnowBoard include the following:

• Intel Atom E640 (dual-core) 1GHz Processor
• Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 600
• 1GB DDR-2 Memory
• UEFI firmware with 4MB SPI flash

The I/O ports of the device include, DVI via HDMI, micro SD, 2 USB ports, PCI Express, a micro USB-B port, a micro USB-B debug port, SATA 3Gbps, and a LAN port.

The MinnowBoard however is a higher price than the Raspberry Pi.

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