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The HiKey 96Boards
powered by Huawei’s Kirin SoC is now enabled with the latest Ubuntu Core ●
Live demo powered
by Ubuntu Core on HiKey will be available during the upcoming OSCON ● Beta developer image is now available for download LeMaker
is announcing today the availability of a developer Image of Ubuntu Core for
the Hikey （LeMaker version） development board. This board
is based on the Kirin620 SoC by
Huawei and is the first 64-bit octa-core A53 ARMv8 community development board
compatible with Linaro 96Boards CE specification. Recently, Canonical, Huawei and LeMaker have
been working together and to create a developer image of Ubuntu Core for
Hikey.
As a 96Board CE specification compliant board,
HiKey offers software and hardware developers a standardized platform to target
for their IOT applications and devices. In particular the HiKey board can run
at 1.2GHz and deliver over 10,000 Dhrystone VAX MIPS total performance. The Kirin
620 octa-core
ARM Cortex-A53
64 bit SoC by Huawei also delivers high performance 3D graphics support with
its ARM Mali 450-MP4 GPU. With support for Ubuntu Core, a stripped down version
of Ubuntu designed for autonomous machines, devices and other
internet-connected digital things, HiKey now offers developers one of the most
popular development platform for IOT.
Open source and secure by design, with transactional updates for fast,
reliable updates, and small footprint, Ubuntu Core is also the ideal platform
to deploy large fleet of IOT devices.
At
the upcoming OSCON, which is taking place this month in Austin,
HiKey board powered by Ubuntu Core will have a live demo at Huawei&LeMaker’s
booth at 501, do come along and check out the demo. And the latest beta Ubuntu
Core image is currently available here. |
