Guys, do you think Intel will keep investing on these Arduino boards ? How profitable and strategic is this to Intel ?
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so I do a prototype with the Intel board, I get some Chinese PCBs made from Seeed or somewhere, I drag out the old toaster reflow oven, and then I fire up the old Digikey web site and I order what?
Intel has always been one of the most, if not the most, "maker" unfriendly semiconductor companies in the game. Want a databook? talk to marketing. Want a sample? better take a salesman to lunch to talk about your order. Quantity 1? yeah right. They only make exclusive deals for large orders. These $50 and $100 "maker" boards are a joke. 10x what they should cost. Barely competitive. Toys for BK's kids and the rest of the Brownie Troop. Like so many other failed trinkets and toys. The time to get this market share was 15 years ago, when the OWGs were still using their x86 codebase. Too little too late.
The crazy thing is that Intel tries to make a profit selling his own inferior Arduino board for 50$+, when the original is <10$ and has a better controller (analog inputs, lower power, bullet-proof, better timers, better watchdog)
Instead, it should have given those things for free to everybody who wants them, just to gain experience, traction and reference designs. Only 1% of the 4 billions "contra-revenue" in tablets used here would have created a real ecosystem and brought valuable feedback on what the market really needs.
Intel just cannot get rid of its monopolistic approach: "World, here is my newest and greatest sensational product. Now come all to me, show me your gratitude and grab deep into your pockets "
in fact I know how crap those boards are. I really do not understand how Intel keep a team and contractor to develop boards that merely works. They are horrible and not profitable.
Do you mean Edison/Galileo/Grosse Tete?
Just buy one for fun. If you are not absolutely furious how crap the boards are after a couple of hours of fiddling with them, you really didn't try to get past the blinking LED example.
Dun dun dun dun DUN!!!
These idiots are in denial that Intel is a thing of the past.
The intel cpu is crap. An atmel has way more features out of the box and runs on a single cr2032 battery for months.
There is only one product from Intel for the Arduino, and from what I understand no maker Faire teams are using it. Way too expensive, efficiency is crap and too complicated. Look at the list below. 99% is ARM based. Sorry Intel, you cannot force your way into the world of innovation ever again. You were a bully who's time has came and now gone forever. Good riddance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arduino_boards_and_compatible_systems
I think they should - however fire all the stupid architects that make these boards so difficult to work with. The Raspberry Pi is the simple and powerful. Before I took the ERP I was thinking of moving to the group that does the boards and then I heard it was just a bunch of patent hungry architects running the show...