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http://wccftech.com/dragonboard-820c-computer-snapdragon-820/

 

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It features 32GB of on board storage, 3GB of LPDDR4 memory, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0/3.0 ports and Bluetooth 4.1. The graphics for the board will be powered by Qualcomm’s Adreno 540. It’s a powerhouse of a GPU and doesn’t let other offerings such as ARM’s Mali lineup even touch it in benchmark scores. The DragonBoard 820c will power drones, robots and other IoT devices. The Snapdragon 820 can support cameras with resolutions up to 28MP and the Adreno 530 will support 4K@30 fps.

Once the board is commercially available and starts to generate customers, Windows 10 IoT support will make it on board. Hook the 820c with Microsoft’s Azure, and you’ll have some very popular cloud based server hardware. Cloud computing is the future and Qualcomm’s hardware will provide a good bridge between efficient performance and lower sizes. Thoughts? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and stay tuned for the latest. We’ll keep you updated in the meanwhile.

It's important to note the board itself is made by Arrow Electronics, not Qualcomm itself, but it's still Qualcomm tech itself running a nice micro-sized full computer.

The board's official name is DragonBoard 410c, and it's not commercially available yet, but release dates are being hotly anticipated.

 

You're limited to Linux, but at least not with a measly 1GB of memory like on a Raspberry Pi.

 

I think it's cool others are getting in on the SFF computer game, especially someone with the kind of financing to push it like Qualcomm (anticompetitive crap aside).

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it's not QUALCOMM that makes, it. it's another company using Qualcomm's CPUs

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6 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

it's not QUALCOMM that makes, it. it's another company using Qualcomm's CPUs

Good catch, corrected.

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IoT  got hacked at the end of last year!

why do people think it's still safe when something like a HUGE DDOS attack could happen because no-one thought:

oh, maybe we should revoke the tech and refine it till it's safe again.

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why... just... why...

do companies no longer care about our safety and only the money that they earn?

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22 minutes ago, samiscool51 said:

IoT  got hacked at the end of last year!

why do people think it's still safe when something like a HUGE DDOS attack could happen because no-one thought:

oh, maybe we should revoke the tech and refine it till it's safe again.

(bangs head against desk)

why... just... why...

do companies no longer care about our safety and only the money that they earn?

Companies only ever cared about the money they earn...

The only care about safety up to the point where it affects their profits.

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On 2/9/2017 at 3:57 AM, rhyseyness said:

Companies only ever cared about the money they earn...

The only care about safety up to the point where it affects their profits.

And all the real concerns are left up to the people/community to fix and work around them. Forever love the open source community <3

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This is not a PC. It's an ARM computer, but not a PC.

 

To be a PC a device needs very specific requirements regarding legacy interrupt support, clocks, etc. This has none of that. (Note: a Mac has all of it)

 

This is no more a PC than a raspberry Pi is a PC.

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