Intel Edison

[Yvan256]

http://hackaday.com/2014/09/09/intel-releases-edison-a-computer-slightly-larger-than-an-sd-card/.

Will this be better than a RaspberryPI to run MAME and other emulators?

edit: it seems that thing doesn't have video output capabilities, so the answer would be no.

[SavannahLion]

Yeah, I was hopeful too. Thought maybe the engineers added a GPU of some kind since the last announcement.  Intel is positioning the Edison as a sort of Arduino-Killer rather than a Pi-Killer. The version "B" with the God awful Arduino headers is pretty clear about where Intel wants to go.

I think the previous Edison announcement had the thing the size of a SD-card with as many pins with the intent it would be sewn into clothing or something. Looks like the Intel engineers realized how stupid that idea is.

I'm not overly keen on this YAA product but I can accept it for what it is.

It's exciting though to have more than one CPU/MCU competing architectures on the market again. I'm hoping at least one more architecture rises before they processor wars kick into overdrive again.