Ampere launched the Altra Dev Kit this week, a stripped-down system that comes in a cardboard box. It includes a featureful motherboard, an SoC glued to a.
In brief: You can now buy an 80-core Arm dev kit that can run Windows normally for the cost of a conventional high-end system. You’d only want it if you were prototyping hardware or software for edge computing, but imagine what you could do with it in your downtime.
Ampere launched the Altra Dev Kit this week, a stripped-down system that comes in a cardboard box. It includes a featureful motherboard, an SoC glued to a daughterboard, a trio of heatsinks, and an all-important VGA to HDMI cable. It starts at $2,003 for the 32-core kit and reaches up to $2,621 for the 80-core kit. Ampere also makes a 128-core SoC but it’s out of stock at the moment.
