Asus’ Tinker Board enters Raspberry Pi/Creator market space – in distribution
Asus builds the board around the Rockchip RK3288, which is a quad-core, ARM Cortex-A17 device from the Chinese fabless IC house. It has on-chip graphics with the ARM Mali-T764 GPU, supporting OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0, Open VG1.1, OpenCL, and DirectX11. Asus uses the same device as the processor in several of its Chromebook computers.
The distributor lists its main feature set as;
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Quad core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU
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2GB Dual channel LPDDR3 memory
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Gigabit LAN and Bluetooth 4.0 + EDR connectivity
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802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi
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4x USB 2.0 ports
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40-pin Internal header with 28 GPIO pins
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Contact points for PWM and S/PDIF signals
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1x 3.5mm Audio jack connection
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CSI port for camera connection
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DSI port supporting HD resolution
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1x HDMI 2.0 port to support 4K resolution
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Micro SD port supports UHS-I
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Supports Debian OS with KODI
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Power supply required: 5V/ 2A Micro USB
The card measures approximately 85 x 56 mm, and is listed by CPC at £55 or €65.39 (inclusive of VAT).
Farnell CPC; https://cpc.farnell.com/asus/90mb0qy1-m0eay0/tinker-board-2gb-1-8ghz-4k-gb/dp/SC14363
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