Breaking News | Intel reportedly discontinued the production of Edison and Galileo development boards, and foreign netizens started to complain

Leifeng.com News According to hackaday, according to a series of documents quietly released by Intel, Intel's three development modules based on the Atom platform - Edison, Galileo and Joule, will be discontinued after September.

Screenshot of the document about Galileo's upcoming discontinuation of production

Galileo is Intel's first product to enter the maker field. At the Rome Maker Faire in October 2013, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the launch of this development board in cooperation with Arduino. Soon after, Intel launched Edison and Joule at the CES conference in 2014 and the IDF conference last year.

All three products have the characteristic of ultra-low power consumption. If Galileo is still limited to the maker field, the application scope of Edison and Joule is much broader, suitable for many fields such as wearable, embedded, IoT, robotics, AR and VR.

However, the market response to these three products is quite average. On the one hand, the application level of IoT products is too complex to produce a decisive architecture and chip. On the other hand, it is because of their high prices. For example, the Joule, which uses a quad-core, 14nm Atom T5500/5700 processor and is equipped with up to 4GB of RAM, costs as much as $369, which is not competitive at all in terms of cost performance compared to the Raspberry Pi.

In addition, this market has long been dominated by Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and most of the products are based on ARM architecture, which developers have long been accustomed to. Intel wants to transfer the x86 development experience on PC to the Internet of Things. Although the original intention is good, it is not popular.

It is said that Intel will receive the last batch of orders on September 16 and the products will be shipped in December.

As soon as this news came out, netizens started to complain:

A netizen with the ID 4Dprint3r said: Frankly speaking, Intel is very stupid. They don't understand the market at all. Compared with similar hardware, the support they provide is pitiful, and the price is astronomical. It is obvious that Intel's purpose is not to provide tools to developers, but to make profits from them.

A netizen with the ID Brian Benchoff believes that Intel's failure is mainly due to the lack of documentation for its development board. Another netizen with the ID finfihlman agrees, saying: "I searched and searched, but I couldn't find even a picture that explained what each pin represents and where it is on the development board."

Interestingly, although the company was complaining about Intel, Samsung was caught in the crossfire. A netizen with the ID drenehtsral said that if you think Intel is bad, why not try Samsung? He pointed out that many large companies of this size do not want customers to order small batches of personal or customized products. They think it is troublesome and even discourage their agents and distributors from providing documentation to users.

Leifeng.com verified this matter with Intel’s domestic staff, but the other party responded that “we haven’t received the news yet and we are not sure.”