news about eoma68?

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muhammed
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Is there an expected delivery date for those who pre-ordered? I understand that R&D takes time. Just checking in.

jxself
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The best source of news is provided on the crowdfunding page. Notice that it has an "Updates" tab.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

s1lv3r
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On the crownd supply page there is this info "Orders placed now ship Jun 15, 2018."
So i guess some time after JUN 15?

ivanB1975
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I found this on the website of the eoma68 developer: http://rhombus-tech.net/riscv/shakti/m_class/
and in this update in the crowd-funding page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/keeping-100-ohms-hdmi-impedance-risc-v-64-bit-libre-soc-anyone
It is stated at the end under Priorities that the author cannot any longer cover the living cost expenses with the funds from the campaign and he is looking to find alternative projects or contracts to have additional income.

The possibility to have a processor with 3D capability fully free is quite nice. It is surely more interesting than the A20.

Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
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Recent discussions on the mailing list have covered related topics to
delivery dates

have a read of threads from the last hmm 2weeks
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook

In summery:
*Luke has run out of money to live off.
*People have started donating money to help him, more always helps.
the funds for the hardware are safe, it just the money for living
experiences.

*Final prototype has been sent off to be made.
*-If its good production made this revision with working hdmi, if it
fails production goes ahead anyway but with a prev revision, without hdmi.

*Apple have put in there order for next round of iphones. As a result
capacitor and ram prices have shoot up by a *huge* amount.
*-In this last revision, luke also switched to multiple smaller odd vale
caps that did not have the/same price increases. There is also a little
technical benefit of doing this on the bright side.
*-Current discussions/lukes facing that he will have to drop ram down
from 2GB to 1GB. As there is not the budget to pay for huge extra price
increase and its too $$$ messy to do separate boards with smaller
amounts of $$ 2GB ram for those that badly want it. Some are keen to
raise funds for 2gb ram, luke says someone else needs to do this other
than him, if thats whats wanted.

*Im not sure... maybe it was he might get prototypes back before china
new year ? if not post china new year...? i forget

*Talks,discussions,collaboration new soc dev effort with team funded by
gov in india.

* Busy getting ready for FOSDEM

err guess i have missed things, gives ya idea of where things are. umm
hopefully by end of year we should have a20 cpu cards and micro desktop.
i suspect they may well come before end of year :). I forget what was
said on the matter so im covering my self. Laptop case 3D printers needs
more dev time = luke having funds for living.

chaosmonk

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> the gmail account I don't know how to change on
> the forum software is gone gone gone. :)

I've noticed some recent changes to the forum, including that your email address is no longer publically visable on your user page and that you can now change your email address by logging in and editing your user page.

jxself
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The forums are still integrated with the mailing list so the email address is still public.

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