CompuLab Announces The Tiny Fitlet2 Linux PC, Powered By Intel Apollo Lake

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CompuLab Announces The Tiny Fitlet2 Linux PC, Powered By Intel Apollo Lake

The Linux-friendly folks at CompuLab have just announced their newest industrial-grade, fanless PC: the fitlet2...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CompuLab-Fitlet2

[caligula]

How fast is this compared to Mac Minis? What kind of IoT applications would need this much power? GPIO controlled relays already work with Arduino / ESP32.

[Tomin]

How fast is this compared to Mac Minis? What kind of IoT applications would need this much power? GPIO controlled relays already work with Arduino / ESP32.

Guessing without knowing better, but maybe some kind of gateway for IoT devices.

[arjan_intel]

How fast is this compared to Mac Minis? What kind of IoT applications would need this much power? GPIO controlled relays already work with Arduino / ESP32.

IOT is not just small stuff.... IOT ranges from a lightbulb to gateways to factory-machines to ... Xeon-class servers that run self driving cars.

[Michael]

Tiny miscapitalization:

Actually that is officially how they stylize it, but I sort of have a pet peeve about product names in all lower case.

[speculatrix]

https://ark.intel.com/products/96488/Intel-Atom-x7-E3950-Processor-2M-Cache-up-to-2_00-GHz

[starshipeleven]

How fast is this compared to Mac Minis?

The best CPU it can mount has around half the power of the lower-end i5 used in mac minis. It's not bad at all for its intended market, though.
The Atom x7 is basically this CPU with more features (AES, ECC ram) https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...8700+@+1.60GHz
The I5-4260U used in lower-end Mac minis https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...0U+%40+1.40GHz

What kind of IoT applications would need this much power?

Embedded is also medical, industrial, signage, and whatever else where having a full-blown PC to run a user interface and control other peripherals like printers, while also powerful enough to process some data from cameras or sensors is desirable.

GPIO controlled relays already work with Arduino / ESP32.

The fact that this board has no GPIO should probably hint at the fact that GPIO controlled relays isn't the main use for this thing.

[starshipeleven]

https://ark.intel.com/products/96488...up-to-2_00-GHz

Yeah, if this thing actually supports ECC it would be a steal for 200$ (I'm including shipping).

I don't understand how they can fit 16GB of RAM on a device that can run only up to 8 though. Are they using some trick RAM chips? There were some, made years ago that could fit 16GB of RAM in a single DIMM/SO-DIMM.

[speculatrix]

starshipeleven this is an Apollo Lake, your x7-Zxxxx processor is a Cherrytrail.

https://ark.intel.com/compare/85475,95594,96488

the closest device I could find is a J3455, and its CPUBenchmark rating is 2170.

this is somewhat similar to the old Core2Duo/Conroe performance, but at one sixth of the power consumption
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2875&cmp[]=943

[AndyChow]

Looking at this, I was hoping "please have dual ethernet". Actually, it can have up to four ethernet (with a +2 card, default is 2). Can't seem to find an "order" page, hope it's not volume only availability. A bit of a bummer that they claim non-ecc memory only. But love the 8v-36v dc tolerance, and the -40C tolerance. Very nice product.