Cubieboards

[Dirk Broer]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cubie_logo.svg#/media/File:Cubie_logo.svg
Cubieboards are single-board computers, made in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. Their production version of the first CubieBoard was launched in October 2012. It could run Android 4 ICS, Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, Fedora 19 ARM Remix, Archlinux ARM, a basic Debian server via the Cubian distribution, or OpenBSD, and since then other models have found their way out of the factory too.
CubieBoards are being sold through various websites all over the internet (http://cubieboard.org/buy/).
347"Cubie logo" by Miss Yueyuan
- http://cubieboard.org/?p=468. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -


SBC
Picture
SOC
Family
GPU
RAM
Current?
Price


CubieBoard1 (http://docs.cubieboard.org/products/start#a10-cubieboard)
http://docs.cubieboard.org/_media/cubieboard.jpg?w=550&tok=a0c36f

Allwinner A10

ARM Cortex-A8
1000MHz single core CPU

Mali400 MP1

1GB DDR3

Yes

$49


CubieBoard2 (http://docs.cubieboard.org/products/start#a20-cubieboard)
http://docs.cubieboard.org/_media/a20-cubieboard.png?w=550&tok=810b99

Allwinner A20

ARM Cortex-A7
1000MHz dual core CPU

Mali400 MP2

1GB DDR3

Yes

$59


CubieBoard3/
CubieTruck (http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cubietruck/start)
http://docs.cubieboard.org/_media/a20-cubietruck.png?w=550&tok=2a64d7

Allwinner A20

ARM Cortex-A7
1000MHz dual core CPU

Mali400 MP2

2GB DDR3

Yes

$86


CubieBoard4/
CC-A80 (http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cc-a80/start)
http://docs.cubieboard.org/_media/products/cubieboard4-cca80.jpg?w=550&tok=400070

Allwinner A80

Octa
ARM Cortex-A15
Quad 2000MHz CPU and
ARM Cortex-A7
Quad 1300MHz CPU

PowerVR G6230

2GB DDR3

Yes

$125



The CubieTruck is known for it's elegant casings:
http://www.eleduino.com/upload/thumb/210x210/the%2520Ewell%2520case%2520for%2520CT-1%2520.jpg Goldenhttp://www.eleduino.com/upload/thumb/210x210/the%2520ct%2520black%2520case-1.jpg Blackhttp://www.eleduino.com/upload/thumb/210x210/CubieTruck%2520metal%2520case-1.jpg Sturdy metal case with cooling ribs

[Nflight]

Nice info Dirk, as these units get smaller and smaller will we be able to actually see them once they hit 2 nanometers? Or will it be necessary to combine more Processes just so the units will be able to be handled? Such Fun

[Dirk Broer]

Perhaps they will think of a 64-core Huge/big/LITTLE/Tiny combo by then...(16 Cortex-A72 cores, 16 Cortex-A57, 16 Cortex-A53 plus 16 Cortex-A7)

BTW: Chris is using a CubieBoard4, and it outperformed an Intel i7 on an occasion.
And do not be mistaken about the size of the CubieBoard4, it's almost iTX-sized.

[Dirk Broer]

Cubieboard has been busy with an upgrade to their Cubietruck and now have an eight-core board in development, the Cubieboard5, which will be the basis for the Cubietruck plus.
http://cubieboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cubietruck-Plus-appearance-1.jpg
It is based upon a Allwinner H8, an eight core Cortex-A7 (much like the Allwinner A83T that powers the Banana Pi M3). If the price is at the same level as the present Cubietruck3 -which seems way overpriced for its two Cortex-A7 cores until you notice both the number and the sort of the supplied connectors- it will cost some $86 -or 99 Euros. If may be more expensive though...

Meanwhile my local reseller has dropped the price for the Cubieboard4, a.k.a. the CC-A80 (the 8-core Cortex-A15/Cortex-A7 LITTLE.big combo that Chris is working with now), to just below 100 Euro's (excluding VAT, or BTW as it is called here. Including tax it comes to €119,79). Lucky me could get one 2nd hand.:)

In Oz Little Bird sells them for $278.12 AUD (http://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/cubieboard4-cc-a80-high-performance-mini-pc-development-board) -when they're not sold out.
US reseller Technology4Technologists (https://store.iotllc.com/home.php?cat=2&sort=orderby&sort_direction=0&page=4) yet has to show a CC-A80 in its inventory it seems...