Meet The New Raspberry Pi Killer by Huawei, the HiKey 960

It looks similar Huawei is not but focusing on smartphones anymore. With the help of Google, ARM and LeMaker, the visitor has managed to develop the nearly powerful ARM-based single board computer ever, chosen the HiKey 960. Raspberry Pi will be facing some serious oestrus with this release, especially considering of the performance this bad male child packs for a single board figurer.

The HiKey 960 is powered by Android seven.ane and its naming makes complete sense, as it'due south powered by Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 960 octa-core processor. The performance of this processor is quite like to final year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 8890 chips. The processor is based on ARM's big.Piddling CPU architecture feature iv cores of Cortex A73 (up to 2.three GHz) and 4 cores of Cortex A53 (up to i.viii GHz).

The graphics horsepower that's required will be handled by the Mali G71 MP8 GPU that'south considered to exist slightly more powerful than the Adreno 530 GPU on the Snapdragon 820/821 chips. The HiKey 960 too comes with built-in 32 GB of storage and iii GB LPDDR4 RAM. Well, there's no doubt that this lath is a beast, packing capabilities of a high-end smartphone in the market place today.

Huawei thinks this single computer board volition be primarily used by Android developers every bit a tool to write and examination applications. In improver to this, the HiKey 960 can also exist used to create smart devices similar robots, quadcopters etc.

So, what'd you lot remember? Is the HiKey 960 really a Raspberry Pi killer? It's currently available on Amazon for a $239.99 asking toll, if y'all want to requite it a shot.

Source: https://beebom.com/huawei-hikey960-raspberry-pi-killer/

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