Qualcomm Announces DragonBoard 410c With 64-bit ARMv8 SoC

Qualcomm announced the DragonBoard 410c yesterday as their first design in compliance with Linaro's 96Boards standard. The DragonBoard 410c will be available to developers this summer and be powered by Qualcomm's 64-bit Snapdragon SoC.

The DragonBoard 410c complies with the 96Boards' requirements and is the second board to publicly do so after the $128 8-core 64-bit ARM development board from HiSilicon.

The DragonBoard 410c is powered by the Snapdragon 410 with quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor and Adreno 306 graphics. This mid-range Qualcomm SoC is complemented on the board by LPDDR2/DDR3 memory, eMMC memory, etc. Details beyond that are scarce at this time. The availability is expected this "summer" but I haven't been able to find any firm pricing information since yesterday's announcement.

The details available on the DragonBoard 410c can be found via 96Boards.org.

Marcin Juszkiewicz, an ARM Linux developer at Red Hat, has come out with some remarks against Linaro's 96Boards specification via his personal blog. Long story short, Linaro's 96Boards consumer specification is more concerned about ports and form factor rather than enforcing mainline kernel support, open-source graphics drivers, etc.