This is very good news and will ensure further community support for 64 bit ARM. This will undoubtably become a very high volume board at this price point, especially as you say into the education and maker markets.

The Linaro 96Boards program already has the $75 DragonBoard, the LeMaker HiKey and other boards in development. There will be further announcements at Linaro Connect in Bangkok next week. Today these boards have built in eMMC storage, additional memory options and more expansion bus capability as well as specifications that allow vendors to build more powerful boards with use-case targeted features. We expect shipments of hundreds of thousands of 96Boards products this year.

A key point about the Linaro effort is to enable a software development platform across multiple vendor SoCs. This allows Linaro to release open source software implementations from secure firmware to multiple distro support, that enable improved support upstream over time for the latest SoCs from multiple vendors. Our goal is to enable faster development of ARM-based products across the industry with higher quality software.

I very much hope that Raspberry Pi/Broadcom will be able to take advantage of the open source work that Linaro is doing for cross vendor multi-core Cortex-A53 based SoCs.

George Grey CEO Linaro

On Feb 29, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Thomas B. Rücker thomas@ruecker.fi wrote:

Hi,

If you haven't noticed yet, the RaspberryPi 3 was unveiled today. It sports a quad cortex A53 arrangement:

http://hackaday.com/2016/02/28/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-3

I guess that settles where the community will flock for 64bit ARM. Hobbyists and Makers can now get a small and affordable SBC, that at the same time is compliant with THE gold standard for community boards: RPi.

Cheers

Thomas

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