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CHIP (computer)
CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded and produced by the now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC). Advertised as "the world's first $9 computer," it was released in 2015 as open-source hardware running a customized, Debian-based Linux operating system.
The CHIP was designed for hobbyists and embedded hardware projects, including a 1 GHz ARMv7 processor, 512MB of RAM, onboard storage, and integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The product line later expanded to include the CHIP Pro and peripherals like the Pocket CHIP.
Next Thing Co. (NTC) was originally established as a hardware start-up in Oakland, California, in 2013 by founders Dave Rauchwek, Gustavo Huber, and Thomas Deckert. In May 2015, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of the CHIP, marketing it as "the world's first $9 computer." The campaign was highly successful, quickly surpassing its initial goal of $50,000, ultimately raising $2,071,972 from 39,560 backers.
Following the funding campaign, NTC began shipping alpha versions of the CHIP board to its "Kernel Hacker" tier backers on September 25, 2015. General pre-orders for the public opened shortly after, in December 2015. By May 31, 2016, the company had begun its first wave of consumer shipping to fulfill the remaining Kickstarter backer rewards.
Despite early momentum, and the subsequent development of models like the CHIP Pro, the company struggled to maintain production of the original board. Next Thing Co. halted pre-orders for the original chip by April 4, 2017, effectively discontinuing the line.
By March 2018, Next Thing Co. had entered insolvency. The company's assets and intellectual properties were subsequently sold off, and operations ceased. At the time of the company's closure, a significant number of customers who had placed post-Kickstarted pre-orders had no received their devices or refunds.
CHIP was the original board, mostly targeting hobbyists. The system is built around the Allwinner R8 SoC processor, which integrates an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU (based on ARM architecture V7-A) and peripherals, such as Graphic Engine, UART, SPI, USB ports, CIR, CMOS Sensor Interface and LCD controller. The CPU is also accompanied by a NEON SIMD coprocessor and has RCT JAVA-Accelerations to optimize just-in-time (JIT) and dynamic adaptive compilation (DAC). There is also an ARM Mali-400 GPU, and a H263, H264 and vp8 hardware video decoder in the R8.
CHIP was upgraded in April 2017 in anticipation of the CHIP Pro to "share a large number of the same components".
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CHIP (computer)
CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded and produced by the now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC). Advertised as "the world's first $9 computer," it was released in 2015 as open-source hardware running a customized, Debian-based Linux operating system.
The CHIP was designed for hobbyists and embedded hardware projects, including a 1 GHz ARMv7 processor, 512MB of RAM, onboard storage, and integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The product line later expanded to include the CHIP Pro and peripherals like the Pocket CHIP.
Next Thing Co. (NTC) was originally established as a hardware start-up in Oakland, California, in 2013 by founders Dave Rauchwek, Gustavo Huber, and Thomas Deckert. In May 2015, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of the CHIP, marketing it as "the world's first $9 computer." The campaign was highly successful, quickly surpassing its initial goal of $50,000, ultimately raising $2,071,972 from 39,560 backers.
Following the funding campaign, NTC began shipping alpha versions of the CHIP board to its "Kernel Hacker" tier backers on September 25, 2015. General pre-orders for the public opened shortly after, in December 2015. By May 31, 2016, the company had begun its first wave of consumer shipping to fulfill the remaining Kickstarter backer rewards.
Despite early momentum, and the subsequent development of models like the CHIP Pro, the company struggled to maintain production of the original board. Next Thing Co. halted pre-orders for the original chip by April 4, 2017, effectively discontinuing the line.
By March 2018, Next Thing Co. had entered insolvency. The company's assets and intellectual properties were subsequently sold off, and operations ceased. At the time of the company's closure, a significant number of customers who had placed post-Kickstarted pre-orders had no received their devices or refunds.
CHIP was the original board, mostly targeting hobbyists. The system is built around the Allwinner R8 SoC processor, which integrates an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU (based on ARM architecture V7-A) and peripherals, such as Graphic Engine, UART, SPI, USB ports, CIR, CMOS Sensor Interface and LCD controller. The CPU is also accompanied by a NEON SIMD coprocessor and has RCT JAVA-Accelerations to optimize just-in-time (JIT) and dynamic adaptive compilation (DAC). There is also an ARM Mali-400 GPU, and a H263, H264 and vp8 hardware video decoder in the R8.
CHIP was upgraded in April 2017 in anticipation of the CHIP Pro to "share a large number of the same components".