Intel's new single board computer "MinnowBoard MAX" appears at half price of previous model

More than 2.5 million units are sold worldwideSingle board computer(SBC) "Raspberry PiAnd, you can move Ubuntu · Android "BeagleBone"Open source SBC released by Intel last year"MinnowBoard"Although high performance, the price of 199 dollars (about 20,000 yen) became a bottleneck and it did not reach the explosive popularity. However, it is smaller and more efficient, the price is 99 dollars (about 10 thousand yen) and the new type "MinnowBoard MAX"Intel announced.

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This is MinnowBoard MAX. The size is 9.9 centimeters by 7.4 centimeters in length, further miniaturized from the previous model which was nanoITX standard size. It became close to Raspberry Pi.


The SoC's Atom E3800 series (Bay Trail-I) supports 64 bits at the maximum frequency of 1.91 GHz, integrates Intel HD graphics to CPU, also has SATA connector · USB 3.0 terminal · microHDMI terminal,Atom E640It achieves higher performance than the previous model.


There are two types of SoCs: Atom E3815 (single core rated 1.46 GHz, TDP 5 W) and E 3825 (dual core rating 1.33 GHz, TDP 6 W), and DDR 3 memory 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB.TDPIs extremely small as 5 to 6 W. Naturally, the heat sink is fanless.


As the previous model as OSYocto ProjectBased on Linux only, while MinnowBoard MAX in addition to Yocto Project LinuxDebian GNU / LinuxAnd Android 4.4, more freedom of the system is increasing.


Also, for low speed / high speed two kinds of expansion called "Lure"GPIOEquipped with. Low speed Lure connector, mostArduinoDevelopers can easily produce prototypes because they can use many Arduino shields which are the same shape as those adopted on the platform and are currently on sale.


White parts mounted on the back of the motherboard are high-speed Lure connectors and can be expanded to PCIe Gen 2.0 (1 lane) · USB 2.0. High-speed SSD can be fully utilized through PCIexp.



MinnowBoard MAX has a single core E3815 (1.46 GHz) 1GB memory entry model for $ 99 (about 10,000 yen), dual core E3825 (1.33 GHz), 2 GB top model is $ 129 (about 13,000 yen ), Which is scheduled to appear in the third quarter of 2014. In addition, there is a possibility that a model of memory 4 GB · quad core may be added.

It is a high price MinnowBoard MAX compared with 40 dollars (about 4000 yen) Raspberry Pi, 45 dollar (about 4500 yen) BeagleBone Black, but it is a SBC that is likely to gather popularity due to its high performance and feature of x86 CPU .