CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Raspberry Pi popularized the concept of the micro-PC with a compact and an extremely cheap device. Now a new player, Next Thing‘s CHIP, joins the race to build the world’s most affordable computer. CHIP is a fully functional Linux-powered computer and is just about one-quarter the size of a banana and one-quarter the price of the Raspberry Pi. Yes, that means it’s only $9!

To cut down the price, CHIP packs a 1GHz Allwinner R8 Cortex A8 processor with a built-in Mali400 GPU, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage. It also features a micro USB port, composite headphone/mic port, Wifi and Bluetooth. All this is powered by attaching a LiPo battery, DC power, or through the micro USB. The hardware is powerful enough to power LibreOffice, the Chromium browser, and a whole host of games and programs to teach programming.




http://ardevon.com/2015/07/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. I need to get some sleep since I was up all night

[dembotoz]

2. And yet the stupid kia store wants 1200 bucks to replace the computer in my 2001 sephia

I want the nine dollar replacement

[Beartracks]

3. $9 computer... and $1,191 labor.

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[arikara]

7. Its like $4500 for hearing aids

when the parts are worth $50.

I really don't know how they get away with it.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Collusion

A few companies control the market for making and selling hearing aids.

Costco's price is about 50% of the standard for hearing aids. Still far more than it should be, but much better.

[hankthecrank]

4. Does it also have the breakout pins?

It will be handy but it needs to the breakout pins to fill the same as the pi

[corkhead]

5. Cool, but not quite reality yet; it's a successful kickstarter campaign

CHIP has blown way past its initial funding goal of $50,000 and raised over $2,000,000 on Kickstarter. We just can’t wait to get our hands on one. Next Thing should begin shipping CHIP in December, with the cases and additional adapters arriving in May 2016.




https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer

[L0oniX]

6. AMD is ahead of this with their A series apu but not at that price.

The idea is cool though ...like AMD has with the cpu and gpu with memory all packed into one chip. I went with the A10-7850k for my latest desktop for all around use including games.