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Pine Store Limited, doing business as Pine64 (styled as PINE64, formerly Pine Microsystems), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, smartphones, and smartwatches. Its name is inspired by the mathematical constants π and e with a reference to 64-bit computing.
Pine64 initially operated in Fremont, California, as Pine Microsystems Inc. It was founded by TL Lim, inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of digital media players sold under the Syabas and Cloud Media brands.
In 2015, Pine Microsystems offered its first product, the Pine A64, a single-board computer designed to compete with the popular Raspberry Pi in power and price. The A64 was first funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in December 2015 which raised over US$1.7 million. The Kickstarter project was overshadowed by delays and shipping problems. The original Kickstarter page referred to Pine64 Inc. based in Delaware, but all devices for the Kickstarter campaign were manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. based in Fremont, California.
In January 2020, Pine Microsystems Inc. was dissolved, while Pine Store Limited was incorporated on December 5, 2019, in Hong Kong. As of late 2020, the standard form contract of pine64.com binds all orders to the laws of Malaysia, while the products are shipped from warehouses in Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong.
After the initial Kickstarter orders for the Pine A64 single-board computers, the company went on to make more devices.
The original Pine A64 boards released in 2016 are powered by the Allwinner A64 system-on-chip. It features a 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor, an ARM Mali 400 MP2 graphics processing unit, one HDMI 1.4a port, one MicroSD slot, two USB 2.0 ports and a 100 Megabit Ethernet port. The A64 board has only 512 megabytes of random-access memory (RAM), the 1 GiB and 2 GiB versions are labeled "Pine A64+". While the 512 MiB model only works with Arch Linux and Debian GNU/Linux distributions, such as Armbian or DietPi, the A64+ with more memory can also run other operating systems including Android, Remix OS, Windows 10, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu. Optional eMMC storage modules can be plugged into special headers on the board.
A compute module named SoPine A64 was introduced in January 2017. It features the same system-on-chip as the Pine A64, but mounted on a DDR3 SODIMM form factor board without the USB, HDMI, and Ethernet connectors. It competes with the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. Pine64 sells a "Clusterboard" with an inbuilt eight-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, which can be used to build a cluster system out of up to seven SoPine modules. A review by Hackaday noted problems with production quality, software, and user support. In 2017, the firm added a "Long Term Supply" (LTS) version of the Pine A64/A64+ boards, named "Pine A64/A64(+)- LTS". The LTS versions are identical to the A64/A64+, but are guaranteed to be available until the year 2022 at a slightly higher cost.
In July 2017, the company added a new line of single-board computers based on Rockchip SoCs. The Rock64 features a Rockchip RK3328 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor; a Mali-450MP2 GPU able to play 4K resolution high-dynamic-range video (HDR) videos; one, two, or four gigabytes of RAM; two USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 ports; one HDMI 2.0 port; a Gigabit Ethernet port; a microSD slot and several other peripheral ports. Its larger brother, the RockPro64, is based on a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core (dual ARM Cortex-A72 and quad ARM Cortex A53) 64-bit processor instead. It features a Mali T-860 quad-core GPU and, along with the standard USB, Ethernet, HDMI, and MicroSD ports, also has an Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) interface and an open-ended PCI Express x4 slot. An optional PCI Express to dual SATA-II adapter and an optional Wi-Fi module are offered by Pine64
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Pine64
Pine Store Limited, doing business as Pine64 (styled as PINE64, formerly Pine Microsystems), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, smartphones, and smartwatches. Its name is inspired by the mathematical constants π and e with a reference to 64-bit computing.
Pine64 initially operated in Fremont, California, as Pine Microsystems Inc. It was founded by TL Lim, inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of digital media players sold under the Syabas and Cloud Media brands.
In 2015, Pine Microsystems offered its first product, the Pine A64, a single-board computer designed to compete with the popular Raspberry Pi in power and price. The A64 was first funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in December 2015 which raised over US$1.7 million. The Kickstarter project was overshadowed by delays and shipping problems. The original Kickstarter page referred to Pine64 Inc. based in Delaware, but all devices for the Kickstarter campaign were manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. based in Fremont, California.
In January 2020, Pine Microsystems Inc. was dissolved, while Pine Store Limited was incorporated on December 5, 2019, in Hong Kong. As of late 2020, the standard form contract of pine64.com binds all orders to the laws of Malaysia, while the products are shipped from warehouses in Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong.
After the initial Kickstarter orders for the Pine A64 single-board computers, the company went on to make more devices.
The original Pine A64 boards released in 2016 are powered by the Allwinner A64 system-on-chip. It features a 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor, an ARM Mali 400 MP2 graphics processing unit, one HDMI 1.4a port, one MicroSD slot, two USB 2.0 ports and a 100 Megabit Ethernet port. The A64 board has only 512 megabytes of random-access memory (RAM), the 1 GiB and 2 GiB versions are labeled "Pine A64+". While the 512 MiB model only works with Arch Linux and Debian GNU/Linux distributions, such as Armbian or DietPi, the A64+ with more memory can also run other operating systems including Android, Remix OS, Windows 10, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu. Optional eMMC storage modules can be plugged into special headers on the board.
A compute module named SoPine A64 was introduced in January 2017. It features the same system-on-chip as the Pine A64, but mounted on a DDR3 SODIMM form factor board without the USB, HDMI, and Ethernet connectors. It competes with the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. Pine64 sells a "Clusterboard" with an inbuilt eight-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, which can be used to build a cluster system out of up to seven SoPine modules. A review by Hackaday noted problems with production quality, software, and user support. In 2017, the firm added a "Long Term Supply" (LTS) version of the Pine A64/A64+ boards, named "Pine A64/A64(+)- LTS". The LTS versions are identical to the A64/A64+, but are guaranteed to be available until the year 2022 at a slightly higher cost.
In July 2017, the company added a new line of single-board computers based on Rockchip SoCs. The Rock64 features a Rockchip RK3328 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor; a Mali-450MP2 GPU able to play 4K resolution high-dynamic-range video (HDR) videos; one, two, or four gigabytes of RAM; two USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 ports; one HDMI 2.0 port; a Gigabit Ethernet port; a microSD slot and several other peripheral ports. Its larger brother, the RockPro64, is based on a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core (dual ARM Cortex-A72 and quad ARM Cortex A53) 64-bit processor instead. It features a Mali T-860 quad-core GPU and, along with the standard USB, Ethernet, HDMI, and MicroSD ports, also has an Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) interface and an open-ended PCI Express x4 slot. An optional PCI Express to dual SATA-II adapter and an optional Wi-Fi module are offered by Pine64