[desperado77]

The devkit is basically a tiny computer-on-a-board featuring NVIDIA’s new processor as well as 2GB of RAM, 16GB of eMMC storage, for 192$

Half mini-PCIE slot
Gigabite Ethernet
SD card connector
HDMI port
Mic and Line jacks
1 micro USB 2.0 port
1 USB 3.0 port
SATA data port
4MByte boot flash

There’s also an expansion port for UART, GPIO, and DP/LVDS signals, among other things.

The Jetson TK1 board features NVIDIA’s ARM Cortex-A15 4-Plus-1 quad-core processor with Kepler graphics and 192 NVIDIA CUDA cores.

Source: liliputing.com

Will this be one of the best small Supercomputer for xbmc on linux platform supporting 4k videos ?

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/N...s-ad8.aspx

[DJ...]

What kind of box could you put that board in?

[Promythyus]

Any word on HDMI-CEC? Probably not given it's a dev kit, but devs need hardware to test HDMI-CEC after all!

Looks like it'd be one powerful board, I look forward to seeing how well XBMC performs on it.

[Hedda]

Was just about to post this news before I found this existing discussion thread.

Nvidia Jetson TK1 (Tegra K1 32-bit Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A15) Development Board for $192

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NV...s-ad8.aspx

Nvidia just announce "Jetson TK1" a Tegra K1 32-bit 4-Plus-1 ARM Cortex-A15 CPU core Development Kit

Priced at $192 and available for pre-order now and will ship by April 2014

https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1


So far they only announced DevKit support for "Linux 4 Tegra (L4T)" with 3.10.24 kernel image, and no news yet about Android support

https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1-support

Jetson TK1 Board Features:
Tegra K1 SOC
Kepler GPU with 192 CUDA cores
4-Plus-1 quad-core ARM Cortex A15 CPU
2 GB x16 memory with 64 bit width
16 GB 4.51 eMMC memory
1 Half mini-PCIE slot
1 Full size SD/MMC connector
1 Full-size HDMI port
1 USB 2.0 port, micro AB
1 USB 3.0 port, A
1 RS232 serial port
1 ALC5639 Realtek Audio codec with Mic in and Line out
1 RTL8111GS Realtek GigE LAN
1 SATA data port
SPI 4MByte boot flash


The following signals are available through an expansion port:
DP/LVDS
Touch SPI 1x4 + 1x1 CSI-2
GPIOs
UART
HSIC
i2c

What kind of box could you put that board in?

This specific board is not design to be sold to normal consumers but instead sold as a development kit, and Nvidia target audience for this specific devkit board developers working to develop hardware for computer-vision applications for robotics, medical, avionics, and automotive industries

Read more: http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/03/26/1...ex-a15-soc

[DJ...]

This specific board is not design to be sold to normal consumers but instead sold as a development kit, and Nvidia target audience for this specific devkit board developers working to develop hardware for computer-vision applications for robotics, medical, avionics, and automotive industries

Read more: http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/03/26/1...ex-a15-soc

Sure, but further down the line something like this should become available to the general public. I saw their terms that it cannot be sold on in any form, but hopefully there's a consumer release of this, as it would be incredible considering the price-point.

Was just curious as to whether it would fit inside an existing case or whether one would have to custom build a case for this...

[updatelee]

Here is what appears to be the kernel source

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=lin.../l4t-r19.1

Cause pre compiled kernels and rootfs dont interest me any. Wish they would setup a BSP

UDL

[Hedda]

Sure, but further down the line something like this should become available to the general public

Other products based on the Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC marketed at consumer target audience will surley trickle out over this year

Lenovo have already announced a new Smart TV system based on Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC hardware and Android OS

http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/25/lenov...-power-mo/

[essential]

I have a $50 GC to newegg and I'm considering pre-ordering one of these to play around with, however I've never really tinkered with anything. I've had a Boxee Box I've grown fed up with. How difficult is it to load Android or Linux on something like this? Since it's 16GB eMMC it's not like you can toss an image on an SD card to boot. I'm sure I can learn, but is this something I shouldn't undertake or is it relatively easy?

[davilla]

Android... impossible unless you have support from nvidia.
Linux... guess what, "Linux 4 Tegra (L4T)" IS Linux

[desperado77]

Some benchmarks :

NVIDIA Tegra K1 Compared To Various x86, ARM Linux Systems

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ar...view&num=1

NVIDIA Tegra K1 Compared To AMD AM1 APUs
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ar...dam1&num=1

[centaury2015]

we are making a Set Top Box with Nvidia Tegra K1, it seems that it's the best hardware for XBMC.

[barleyguy]

Android... impossible unless you have support from nvidia.
Linux... guess what, "Linux 4 Tegra (L4T)" IS Linux

NVidia's Tegra source code is available through Git. There's a roughly 100% chance that everything needed to support Android will be there very soon.

http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?o=age

we are making a Set Top Box with Nvidia Tegra K1, it seems that it's the best hardware for XBMC.

I received a Jetson board on Monday, and it works great with XBMC. The Universe repo supports Linux for Tegra, so it loads right from the package manager, and fires up without a problem. It seems to play HD video just fine as well.

[tential]

$200 doesn't seem like it will be the best fit for Android. $100 is still the sweet spot IMO. At $200 you're flirting with NUC options and other x86 options.

[barleyguy]

$200 doesn't seem like it will be the best fit for Android. $100 is still the sweet spot IMO. At $200 you're flirting with NUC options and other x86 options.

The Jetson is a complete system other than the option of a case. It includes a power supply, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. With NUC and other x86 options you probably have to buy all 3 of those things separately.

AMD Kaveri/Kabini is the only thing I can think of that might be comparable performance for the same price. That's around $70 for APU and motherboard, so with RAM and storage it's probably about the same price.

[centaury2015]

maybe you can try to port android into Jetson Tegra K1.