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Banana Pi launches new Raspberry Pi alternative SBC with octa-core ARM CPU and plenty of connectivity (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] eemon@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Never heard of the Banana Pi, very cool.