Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies for $37 billion in 2016 and currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity Broadcom Inc.
A wireless network interface controller (WNIC) is a network interface controller which connects to a wireless network,such as Wi-Fi,Bluetooth,or LTE (4G) or 5G rather than a wired network,such as an Ethernet network. A WNIC,just like other NICs,works on the layers 1 and 2 of the OSI model and uses an antenna to communicate via radio waves.
Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor chips for network communications,particularly wireless chipsets. The company was founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University,the University of California,Berkeley,and private industry. The company was renamed Atheros Communications in 2000 and it completed an initial public offering in February 2004,trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol ATHR.
The BeagleBoard is a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and Newark element14. The BeagleBoard was also designed with open source software development in mind,and as a way of demonstrating the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip. The board was developed by a small team of engineers as an educational board that could be used in colleges around the world to teach open source hardware and software capabilities. It is also sold to the public under the Creative Commons share-alike license. The board was designed using Cadence OrCAD for schematics and Cadence Allegro for PCB manufacturing;no simulation software was used.
Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. Since 2013,Raspberry Pi devices have been developed and supported by a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation,now named Raspberry Pi Ltd. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned toward the promotion of teaching basic computer science in schools. The original model became more popular than anticipated,selling outside its target market for diverse uses such as robotics,home and industrial automation,and by computer and electronic hobbyists,because of its low cost,modularity,open design,and its adoption of the HDMI and USB standards.
The Acer Iconia is a range of tablet computers from Acer Inc. of Taiwan.
The Allwinner A1X is a family of single-core SoC devices designed by Allwinner Technology from Zhuhai,China. Currently the family consists of the A10,A13,A10s and A12. The SoCs incorporate the ARM Cortex-A8 as their main processor and the Mali 400 as the GPU.
The MK802 is a PC-on-a-stick produced by Rikomagic,a Chinese company using mostly two series of systems on a chip architectures:
Cubieboard is a single-board computer,made in Zhuhai,Guangdong,China. The first short run of prototype boards were sold internationally in September 2012,and the production version started to be sold in October 2012. It can run Android 4 ICS,Ubuntu 12.04 desktop,Fedora 19 ARM Remix desktop,Armbian,Arch Linux ARM,a Debian-based Cubian distribution,FreeBSD,or OpenBSD.
Redpine Signals is a fabless semiconductor company that started its operation in 2001. The company makes chipsets and system-level products for wireless networks. It serves the Internet of Things and wireless embedded systems market,enabling all volume levels of chipsets and modules.
Allwinner Technology Co.,Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoC). The company is headquartered in Zhuhai,Guangdong,China. It has a sales and technical support office in Shenzhen,Guangdong,and logistics operations in Hong Kong.
Amlogic Inc. is a Fabless semiconductor company that was founded on March 14,1995,in Santa Clara,California and is predominantly focused on designing and selling system on a chip integrated circuits. Like most Fabless companies in the industry,the company outsources the actual manufacturing of its chips to third-party independent chip manufacturers such as TSMC. Its main target applications as of 2021 are entertainment devices such as Android TV-based devices and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes,media dongles,smart TVs and tablets. It has offices in Shanghai,Shenzhen,Beijing,Xi'an,Chengdu,Hefei,Nanjing,Qingdao,Taipei,Hong Kong,Seoul,Mumbai,London,Munich,Indianapolis,Milan,Novi Sad and Santa Clara,California.
SolidRun is an Israeli company producing embedded systems components,mainly mini computers,Single-board computers and computer-on-module devices. It is specially known for the CuBox family of mini-computers,and for producing motherboards and processing components such as the HummingBoard motherboard.
CHIP was a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC),released as open-source hardware running open-source software. It was advertised as "the world's first $9 computer". CHIP and related products are discontinued. NTC has since gone insolvent.
Pine Store Limited,known by its trade name Pine64,is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs,manufactures,and sells single-board computers,notebook computers,as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was inspired by the mathematical constants pi and e with a reference to 64-bit computing power.
The Pinebook is a low-cost notebook developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64. The Pinebook was announced in November 2016 and production started in April 2017. It is based on the platform of Pine64's existing Pine A64 single board computer,costing US$89 or US$99 for the 11.6" and 14" model respectively. Its appearance resembles the MacBook Air. The Pinebook is sold "at-cost" by Pine64 as a community service.
The BPI Bit is an ESP32 with Xtensa 32bit LX6 single/dual-core processor based embedded system
IEEE 802.11be,dubbed Extremely High Throughput (EHT),is the latest of the IEEE 802.11 standard,which is designated Wi-Fi 7. It has built upon 802.11ax,focusing on WLAN indoor and outdoor operation with stationary and pedestrian speeds in the 2.4,5,and 6 GHz frequency bands.
The PinePhone is a smartphone developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64,intended to allow the user to have full control over the device. Measures to ensure this are:running mainline Linux-based mobile operating systems,assembling the phone with screws,and simplifying the disassembly for repairs and upgrades. LTE,GPS,Wi-Fi,Bluetooth and both cameras can be physically switched off. The PinePhone ships with the Manjaro Linux operating system using the Plasma Mobile graphic interface,although other distributions can be installed by users.
The PineTab is a low-cost tablet developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64. The PineTab was announced in May 2020,with shipping beginning in September 2020. It is based on the platform of the existing Pine A64 single board computer,with the platform being used in related devices,such as the Pinebook and PinePhone.
