The British-up chip designer Imagination has under the name of Creator CI20 a cheap ontwikkelbordje released on the basis of a 1.2 GHz MIPS-based processor. The ‘Raspberry Pi competitor’ can, according to Imagination by default, Debian 7 and Android 4.4 running.
The sign of the Creator CI20 measure 90,2×95,3mm. The CI20 incorporates an Ingenic JZ4780-soc that 1.2 GHz is clocked. The processor includes dual-core chip and a PowerVR SGX 540 gpu, and is built on the basis of the 32bit MIPS architecture. The plate further contains 1GB of ddr3 memory and 8GB nand flash memory. The storage is expandable via an sd or microsd card.
On the CI20 are two usb 2.0 ports to find which one is suitable for usb on-the-go, and a 100Mbit-ethernet connection. Also is a chip for 802.11 n-wi-fi and bluetooth 4.0 on the moederbordje placed. Also contains the CI20 25 gpio ports, two spi-buses, infrared and an hdmi connector. There is a 5V adapter to the ontwikkelbordje to feed.
According to Imagination, developers can directly, Android 4.4 or Debian 7 to boot from the internal flash memory or an sd card. Also other Linux variants would run, including Gentoo, Yocto and Arch. The CI20 will get a price tag of £ 50, converted to eur 63.