<story><title>Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/11/rock-pi-x-low-cost-intel-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilhil</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why this has taken so long...&lt;p&gt;About 5 years ago, I was involved in a project where we purchased Intel based tablets based off a standard reference design in bulk for about $80 a piece - that included battery, cameras, screen, casing and more.&lt;p&gt;The cost of the board only was about ~$30 or so.&lt;p&gt;I really wondered why no one was selling these to compete against the Pi in the heyday.&lt;p&gt;The only problem we had and why we didn&amp;#x27;t sell to makers was because we didn&amp;#x27;t control the design and we had enormous technical problems with EFI&amp;#x2F;Bios 64 bit booting only and a headache like crazy trying to reinstall Linux which just randomly broke all the time.&lt;p&gt;Truth be told, I wish I pushed through with it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/11/rock-pi-x-low-cost-intel-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>williadc</author><text>The processor in these board is about to celebrate its 4th anniversary, and its performance wasn&amp;#x27;t world-beating at the time of its release.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ark&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;93361&amp;#x2F;intel-atom-x5-z8350-processor-2m-cache-up-to-1-92-ghz.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ark&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;93361&amp;#x2F;i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>