Orange Pi and Sansung memory chips. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jippie
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 18, 2015, 11:16:56 am
content: "It’s an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.4, Ubuntu, Debian, Rasberry Pi Image, Cubieboard Image, as well as the banana pi Image."I noticed this Raspberry Pi derivate and couldn't help notice the brand name of the memory chips: 'Sansung'. Is this a legitimate semiconductor brand? A Google search mainly returns hits on laptops and cell phones after being redirected to Samsung searches.full image

author: rickselectricalprojects
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 20, 2015, 11:45:24 pm
content: To be honest it actually sounds a bit dodgy because you can only buy one from alibaba or aliexpress or what ever there names are but if they sell them somewhere else i would be very intrested in getting one although they sound expensive.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 20, 2015, 11:55:41 pm
content: Quote from: rickselectricalprojects on January 20, 2015, 11:45:24 pmAliexpress is perfectly legitimate. As is Alibaba..It's pretty clear, however, that this thing is made of the finest components. From that little stall in Shenzhen.

author: jippie
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2015, 06:06:09 am
content: Quote from: Monkeh on January 20, 2015, 11:55:41 pm

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2015, 06:12:35 am
content: Quote from: jippie on January 21, 2015, 06:06:09 am'Sansung'

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2015, 11:42:22 pm
content: And I see they've quietly photoshopped the image on their site to say Samsung.Quality.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 05:47:06 am
content: The original was Photoshopped anyway, as I'm quite sure Samsung doesn't mark their brand in a different font/size than their part numbers or date codes.(Google highlighted results for 'Micron' when I was searching for Samsung products.)

author: jippie
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 06:09:33 am
content: Quote from: Monkeh on January 24, 2015, 11:42:22 pmI knew I should have saved that entire image and not just the sniplet

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 06:26:44 am
content: Quote from: jippie on January 25, 2015, 06:09:33 amhttp://dplinux.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/orange-pi.jpg

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 10:47:25 am
content: i'm sure those are the highest quality SaNsung memory chips you could ever get on the Shenzen market !

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 11:10:30 am
content: people are going on about "sansung" and I guess its funny, but no one has commented on the the claim that this thing, which is allwinner A20 based, can runbinaryimages for rasp pi, a broadcom arm6 architecture. How is that supposed to work?

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2015, 11:57:00 am
content: Quote from: chickenHeadKnob on January 25, 2015, 11:10:30 amARMv7 is backwards compatible with ARMv6 .. isn't it ?the only issue might be the drivers - the raspberry PI image doesn't have the drivers for the A20 peripherals.

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2015, 01:57:11 am
content: Quote from: rob77 on January 25, 2015, 11:57:00 amYes the bulk of the instructions should be ok, but software is brittle, all the SOC init stuff, the gpio libraries, and for that matter I think the GPU has major differences

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2015, 09:29:36 am
content: Quote from: chickenHeadKnob on January 26, 2015, 01:57:11 amexactly that's what i meant with "raspbery image got no drivers for A20 peripherals" above

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2015, 05:50:26 pm
content: Sansung.. San Sung? It doesn't sing?Sans Ung? Some guy named Ung quit the company so it's now without Ung.