CHIP is one of the smallest and cheapest microcomputers that Linux can run at a price of only $ 9.00 USD. It has been designed by the Californian company Next THing Co. in alliance with Allwinner (in charge of building it).
Summary
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- 1 Story
- 2 Hardware
- 3 Software
- 4 Source
- 5 References
History
At the beginning of 2015, the company Next Thing Co. intends to raise $ 50,000 to get its CHIP (or Chip) computer on the crwodfunding platform Kickstarter, and it reaches almost 1.5 million, with only 15 days to make it happen. the project. It is as useful as any other computer but its incredible price of (7.8 euros approximately), about 9 dollars makes it the cheapest in the world, even more than Raspberry Pi, which managed to drop to 16 euros.
Hardware
It has a size of 60 x 40 mm, we can put it anywhere or even take it with us. But despite the fact that it does not have much space available, and at its low price, it is perfectly capable of acting like a conventional computer. It has a 1 GHz Allwinner A13 processor, accompanied by a Mali 400 GPU, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of storage. It has a Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0 connection, in addition to a micro USB port, a full USB port, and a composite video output that we can pass to HDMI or VGA with an adapter.
software
As for the software, it works with Debian and includes software such as Chromium, LibreOffice, Scratch, GIMP, Audacity, Pidgin and VLC Player. As a desktop, LXDE is in charge
