Re: arm64 box under $1K for developers in the USA
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:21:52AM +0000, peter green wrote:
> I just saw an advert on LWN which people here might find
> interesting. It looks like apm have reduced the price of their box
> to $1495 and are offering a "developer special" at $895.
>
> Still more than i'm personally willing to pay and it looks like the
> offer is US only (for non-us customers they point to avnet who still
> seem to be quoting a price of about $3K)
>
> https://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-c1-development-kits/x-c1-development-kit-basic/
I wonder how their cores compare in performance to Cortex-A57 cores.
I was currently waiting for AMD to release the 8 core version of the
Opteron A for use as a build server. I think they run a higher clock
rate, but that doesn't always mean they are fast.
--
Len Sorensen
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