Move over, Raspberry Pi. This startup is building a $9 computer

Exact dupe of this 12h older submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517938

Plus, half a dozen inexact ones from the last 3 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9513850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9511681

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9511260

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9509688

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505807

All easily found by search for "$9" confined to one week.

I've ordered a Raspberry Pi A+ [1] the other day and then read the make magazine article a couple of days later. The first thing I noticed is that the $9 computer needs adapters for all kinds of things (for example HDMI), which raise the price point to the level of the Raspberry Pi. The Pi has either more or less RAM (depending on which model you buy), but it's CPU is significantly better in both cases.

From Wikipedia [2]:

    > Apart from the single-core A1x (A10/A13/A10s/A12),
    > two new more powerful Cortex-A7 Allwinner SoCs
    > have been released by Allwinner,
    > the A10-pin-compatible dual-core Allwinner A20,
    > and the quad-core Allwinner A31.

The CHIP has the single-core Allwinner A13, both new PIs have a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7. To be fair: the Raspberry Pi has no WiFi/Bluetooth and no storage (that one can be a feature though). No idea how the form factors compare.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-a-plus/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allwinner_A1X#Allwinner_A-Seri...

The "Pocket CHIP" edition reminds me heavily of the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator, which is another extremely cool piece of stripped-down-but-functional electronics which manages to be very functional at a decent price: https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/po

Just one USB port though, compared to Pi's 4. And you have to buy an custom adapter to get HDMI out.