Dick Chan, the first online seller to sell the famous MK802 (MK802 factory tour) is back with a new Rockchip RK3066 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 HDMI Stick, now being sold at $55 (+$5 worldwide shipping) here on the ARMdevices.net Members Store.
Here’s possibly the worlds most powerful HDMI Stick yet. It’s got a Freescale i.MX6 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor inside with 1GB RAM, Bluetooth and more. Here’s a first demonstration of what it can do. Software is being optimized while manufacturing is starting, it should be released by the end of this month. Members of ARMdevices.net will be able to buy it for $89 with free worldwide shipping in the ARMdevices.net Members Store.
Rockchip Vice-President Chen Feng presents their new single-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC for cheaper, faster, lower power consuming tablets! They call it the Single-core Terminator. They simplify to lower the cost of the SoC thus of the entry-level ARM Powered device all the while improving the performance to provide for better entry-levels tablets.
Here’s one of the latest interesting ARM Powered laptops by Hivision, powered on VIA’s latest single-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. With Ethernet, HDMI out, 2 USB Host and more.
Geniatech uses the AmLogic AML8726-MX Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 SoC in their new HDMI stick solution, first with support for USB DVB-T tuner. You will be able to buy it for $99 with free (standard) worldwide shipping as a sample in the ARMdevices Members Store: http://138.2.152.197/members-store/ (I just need to set it up within the next couple or three of days). Here’s Geniatech’s press release on the availability of their new ATV120 dual-core HDMI Stick: http://www.geniatech.com/news/dual-core-hdmi-stick-atv120.asp
Here’s an unboxing and demonstration of the new Telechips Cortex-A5 based Tizzbird Stick N1 HDMI Stick. The target price is about $75, including DTS Dolby AC3 audio decoding, 1GB RAM and an IR extender adapter cable.
Here are the documents ValuePlus has provided to argue why their HDMI Stick is the best on the market:
Check how the now famous MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC AllWinner A10 HDMI Stick is being manufactured in Shenzhen China. This is the factory that likely manufactures for all the different brands that have gotten blog coverage over the past few weeks featuring this same design.
Here’s a 15 minute interview of me filmed by the Novacut guys using multiple high quality DSLR camera angles (you can watch it in 1080p!). I’m showing off some of the latest gadgets that I found in Shenzhen, I talk about why and how I video-blog from all the worlds consumer electronics trade shows since 2004, and I announce my next big feature on ARMdevices.net which is a $20/year Membership system to get access to buy all the best gadgets that I find at the trade shows all over the world, sourcing directly from the factories in Shenzhen and to get access to scans or pictures of the business cards of the people/distributors/suppliers that I video-interview (great for the buyers from around the world watching my videos and interested in having the best contact informations to the companies that I film). Look forward to the $20/year ARMdevices.net Membership system to be launched here in the days to come if I can find enough time to set it up while video-blogging here at Computex until June 10th.
This Boxchip based HDMI stick has been talked about over the past couple weeks on some blogs under the names MK802, Zero Devices Z802 etc. The Bill of Materials for this device might be as low as $20 but it’s being sold at around $70 at retail at the moment. Here’s a link to buy it for $70 on Amazon: http://amzn.to/MVjdxQ
Something to do with FXI adding USB host to the design causing some of the delay. Hopefully they start shipping in Scandinavia this month, and to all other pre-orders during the summer. I’d like to see this form factor mass manufactured and sold for around $69 retail and not $199. See the TI OMAP4 powered Always Innovating HDMI stick alternative where it’s said the BOM cost for such a platform may be as low as $30.
Shenzhen Victory Electronics shows their new HDMI Stick design (just a mockup for now?) with an ARM Cortex-A9 processor. The price is $50 per unit when bought in bulk of at least 1000. Please write in the comments if you know which processor they are using.
Using the new Telechips 8925 ARM Cortex-A5 processor platform, here’s the new computer/set-top-box on a USB Stick, with a full sized HDMI port on one side, a full sized USB Host port on the other, a Micro-USB port for power, MicroSD card slot, that’s it. Valueplus plans for a sub-$100 retail price, my guess is that the Bill of Materials for something like this can be done below $30 if mass manufactured. The market for these ARM Powered HDMI Sticks is going to be huge! Imagine a fully smoother Chrome on Android 4.0, a fully smooth Google TV user interface, this is awesome.
Always Innovating fits the Texas Instruments OMAP4 motherboard with all the needed features for a Desktop, Set-top-box and 3D home console into a USB stick sized device that connects to the HDMI port of your HDTV and gets power from USB. It has Bluetooth for Bluetooth keyboards and game controllers. Its USB can do USB host.