An American small business have made a small computer, called CHIP. Total cost for it alone is 9 dollars. You then have the backboard with a 1GHz Allwinner A13 CPU, a videochip, a full USB port, a micro USB port, Bluetooth, wifi and 512MB RAM and 4GB storage. It'll be pre-loaded with a Debian based Linux.

If you want a separate (but on-clickable) VGA port, that's an extra $10, while HDMI is an extra $15.

Fully open source. You can download the schematics and build your own.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XkfBWAJ7kbI for the video.
Or check their Kickstarter page for all the info you need.

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An American small business have made a small computer, called CHIP. Total cost for it alone is 9 dollars. You then have the backboard with a 1GHz Allwinner A13 CPU, a videochip, a full USB port, a micro USB port, Bluetooth, wifi and 512MB RAM and 4GB storage. It'll be pre-loaded with a Debian based Linux.

If you want a separate (but on-clickable) VGA port, that's an extra $10, while HDMI is an extra $15.

Fully open source. You can download the schematics and build your own.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XkfBWAJ7kbI for the video.
Or check their Kickstarter page for all the info you need.

how many FLOPs can it do?

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No idea about the FLOPs but I've read somewhere that it shall be faster then the new Rasperry.

edit: Found it, but it's in german: https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/chip-ist-der-erste-neun-dollar-computer-der-welt

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Could be very interesting for Robots/drones and CNC/CAM etc. In fact can see a number of uses around the house where the ice-cream container full of microcontrollers wouldn't quite have something right, and an arduino type arrangement a bit too much to justify.

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No idea about the FLOPs but I've read somewhere that it shall be faster then the new Rasperry.

edit: Found it, but it's in german: https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/chip-ist-der-erste-neun-dollar-computer-der-welt

Hopefully the Google translated version I read was translated well enough.
This little thin is neat & expect we will be seeing more and more such devices.

The original Raspberry Pi only had a single 700MHz processor & this is a single 1GHz processor. So it is true that it is faster than the Raspberry Pi. However the new Raspberry Pi 2 is a 900MHz quad core processor. If being used for dedicated SETI@home use 4 C.H.I.P.s might be om par with a single Raspberry Pi 2 for roughly the same cost.
It would be neat to have 10 of C.H.I.P. setup & running. Provided the performance/watt is there.

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The R8 is based on Allwinner's A13, so for tech references you can get a good sense of the R8's features from the A13 datasheet.

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No idea about the FLOPs but I've read somewhere that it shall be faster then the new Rasperry.

edit: Found it, but it's in german: https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/chip-ist-der-erste-neun-dollar-computer-der-welt

Hopefully the Google translated version I read was translated well enough.
This little thin is neat & expect we will be seeing more and more such devices.

The original Raspberry Pi only had a single 700MHz processor & this is a single 1GHz processor. So it is true that it is faster than the Raspberry Pi. However the new Raspberry Pi 2 is a 900MHz quad core processor. If being used for dedicated SETI@home use 4 C.H.I.P.s might be om par with a single Raspberry Pi 2 for roughly the same cost.
It would be neat to have 10 of C.H.I.P. setup & running. Provided the performance/watt is there.

Yes, you are right, so the information in the article I linked isn't correct. Anyway, 10 cores for 90 bucks doesn't sound bad. I guess they use very little power, so they could maybe be driven by a solar panel. Could be an interesting project. The question is if you can connect as much as you like to run them all with a single Boinc manager.

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No idea about the FLOPs but I've read somewhere that it shall be faster then the new Rasperry.

edit: Found it, but it's in german: https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/chip-ist-der-erste-neun-dollar-computer-der-welt

Hopefully the Google translated version I read was translated well enough.
This little thin is neat & expect we will be seeing more and more such devices.

The original Raspberry Pi only had a single 700MHz processor & this is a single 1GHz processor. So it is true that it is faster than the Raspberry Pi. However the new Raspberry Pi 2 is a 900MHz quad core processor. If being used for dedicated SETI@home use 4 C.H.I.P.s might be om par with a single Raspberry Pi 2 for roughly the same cost.
It would be neat to have 10 of C.H.I.P. setup & running. Provided the performance/watt is there.

Yes, you are right, so the information in the article I linked isn't correct. Anyway, 10 cores for 90 bucks doesn't sound bad. I guess they use very little power, so they could maybe be driven by a solar panel. Could be an interesting project. The question is if you can connect as much as you like to run them all with a single Boinc manager.

If you mean to configure them in a cluster so BOINC would see it as a single 10 core system. Then they answer would be no. Setting up BOINC so you can control each one from another machine via BOINC Manger is easy. It is what I do for most of my systems.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
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I've just caught up on this thread - the thought of running a box full of nine buck low power consumption computers certainly sounds interesting. I doubt that they would burn the paint, but in terms of bucks per credit it would certainly be worth a go.

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Bob Smith
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