Today AppliedMicro started offering two discounted AppliedMicro X-Gene developer kits at discounted prices. For those not familiar with AppliedMicro, they are one of the leading companies in the ARMv8 field with 64-bit ARM offerings finding design wins in platforms such as the HP Moonshot. The two systems both have 8-core X-Gene ARM processors. The X-C1 Development Kit Basic is a very stripped down version of the platform that runs at 1.6GHz clock speed. The X-C1 Development Kit Plus is $500 more (discounted pricing) but is essentially a complete system.
AppliedMicro Development Kit Details
X-C1 Development Kit Plus
X-Gene 8-core ARM 64-bit CPU at 2.4 GHz
Interfaces on the board include 1GbE, 10GbE, SATA Gen3, PCIe Gen3, USB, SDIO and industry standard debug interfaces
Kit includes a Mini-ITX desktop chassis with power supply and 500GB SATA drive
Operating system offerings include AppliedMicro Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse
Pricing: Standard MSRP is $2,495. With AppliedMicro’s current developer promotion, qualified buyers can purchase the board for $1,395
X-C1 Development Kit Basic
X-Gene 8-core ARM 64-bit CPU at 1.6 GHz
Interfaces on the board include 1GbE, SATA Gen3, PCIe Gen3, USB, SDIO and industry standard debug interfaces
Kit includes Mini-ITX power supply and serial-USB FDTI console cable
Operating system offerings include AppliedMicro Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse
Pricing: Standard MSRP is $1,495. With AppliedMicro’s current developer promotion, qualified buyers can purchase the board for $895
We already sent AppliedMicro a request for a sample and will be working to get Linux-Bench compatible with X-Gene as soon as we can.
Think you can put these in a rackmount 1U?
Any idea what the 10 gig is? Just SFP+? Compatibility?
I’m awaiting your benchmarks.
Remove the number 1 from 1395USD and I’ll call it my NAS.
ROFL @ the prices.