On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Andre Renaud <an...@bluewatersys.com> wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know of a reliable supplier who sells the AllWinner A20 > chips? I was hoping to find them on digikey, mouser or avnet, but it > appears that they're a little bit hard to find. I see that Olimex will > sell them in low volumes, but I was hoping for a better known supplier > (and higher quantities).
Allwinner is talking with the big distributors currently but AFAIK no deal has been reached yet. Many people have designed their own board locally using a few chips from Olimex. Then when you want to make a larger quantity have them assembled in Shenzhen. The Allwinner chips are plentiful in Shenzhen. Instead of buying chips you might want to consider standard Q88 tablet PCBAs. A20 tablet PCBAs can be bought in the $20-30 range in Shenzhen. An easy way to get a hold of them is to buy Q88 tablets and disassemble them. These PCBA are made by many companies and the price is highly competitive. It is also possible to buy STB PCBAs. Another option is to have a Chinese design house make one for you. For about $5000 they will design whatever you want and provide about ten prototype boards. These designs are easy to put into production since they will use local components. Around $40/board for medium volume but this depends on what you put on the board. Reusing Q88 PCBAs is by far the easiest solution. You can mount one in a case and then use an internal USB cable to talk to your specialized hardware if needed. > > I know this is a Linux forum, but I'm not 100% sure who to ask, so I > was hoping someone here might have already looked into this. > > Regards, > Andre > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "linux-sunxi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
