Intel is going to collaborate with Arduino, the maker of open-source do-it-yourself kits with motherboard and microcontroller. Intel announced at the same time, Galileo-board with economical Quark X1000-soc. This is a microcomputer that the competition with the Raspberry Pi.
Galileo is the first product that uses the Quark soc, cheap x86 processors that Intel at its IDF event announced. Intel ceo Brian Krzanich announced that Intel in the next 18 months to 50,000 Galileo boards donates to thousands of universities worldwide. Dutch universities are not in the first batch of 17 settings.
Galileo, Intel data sheet, contains the Quark X1000: a 32bit soc with a single core that his work singlethreaded at 400MHz. The processor is compatible with the Pentium Instruction Set Architecture. In addition, the Galileo systeemborden equipped with various i/o interfaces, including acpi, pci-e, 10/100Mbit/s ethernet, and usb 2.0. It also supports Galileo sd memory cards. The manufacturer makes it possible to significantly experiment with the signs and this is support for ehci and ohci for usb, uart for high-speed serial communication, the old rs232 standard, 8MB of programmable nor-flash memory and a jtag port for debugging. The board has dimensions of 10.7 to 7.1 cm.
Intel gives as examples for use in the creation of interactive installations, automation of household appliances and the construction of robots that can be operated via a smartphone. To the development of a push in the back, Intel to collaborate with the Italian Arduino.
Galileo will be compatible with the Arduino-ontwikkelkits and programming interfaces. Both companies are committed to the Arduino-community of do-it-yourselfers, developers, educational institutions and designers to work with the Intel-systeemborden.
Galileo runs on Linux, supplemented with the Arduino libraries so that the board can handle the Sketches, such as the code and programs for the development environment. Intel promises that Galileo can be programmed on OS X, Windows and Linux systems. The project aims to Intel foot to the floor on a do-it-yourself area where arm is the lord and master, and where x86 processors can hardly be used.
In november start-up of Intel, the sale of Galileo, but the price makes the manufacturer not yet known.
