The micro-board market is heating up since Raspberry Pi shook the foundations of the IoT sector with its $35 entry. Now smaller competitors are building even more cost-effective devices.
When Pine64, a small start-up, set out to deliver the first 64-bit micro-computer, it didn’t want to cut any corners and it would seem that it succeeded in this goal. The company recently introduced the Rock64 development board, which is similar to the wildly popular Raspberry Pi, but has some punch to it.
The board, which is several dollars cheaper than its biggest competitor, squeezes more power into its tiny frame. It comes with USB 3.0 which is absent from many of the micro-boards on the market and supports 4K HDR10, which is something you don’t see in devices this small or cheap, for that matter. It is built using the Rockchip SoC and is completely customizable when it comes to memory. It supports both Linux and Android, but it’s yet to be confirmed if Windows 10 IoT works on this device.
The hardware specifications are as follows:
The company is selling the boards starting at $25 for a unit with 1Gb of memory and scales up according to your requirements.
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