Intel Joule 570x IoT Developer Kit

On Intel Developer Forum 2016, Intel launched most powerfull Iot platform till date. Intel Joule development kit packs an Intel Atom processor and 4GB RAM.Board is positioned in high-end IoT and VR applications segment and supports Linux flavours and Windows 10 IoT Core. Brian Krzanich teased the Windows 10-powered open source VR headset Project Alloy.

"Intel Joule is a high performance system-on-module (SOM) in a tiny, low-power package thus making it ideal for computer vision, robotics, drones, industrial IoT, VR, AR, micro-servers and other applications that require high-end edge computing."

A new 4-core embedded module with a small size of 48 x 24 x 3.5 mm, it packs an T5500 and T5700 SoC, both quad core Atom x7 processors that runs at 1.7GHz with 4GB RAM. Giving a tough competition to the specs of a desktop computer, Intel has integrated HDMI GPU graphics with newer 18EU Intel Gen9 graphics and media GPU with Quick Sync technology for 4K video encoding and decoding using H.265, H.264, and VP9/VP8 codecs and USB ports for your mouse and keyboard. There is no integrated WiFi and Bluetooth inside the new Atom chips, but instead relying on the PCI Express interface to add wireless modules.

T5x00 Soc specs:

• a Sensor Hub processor
• a Power management unit
• HDMI video output, MIPI DSI display interface
• I2S audio
• USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports
• PCI Express
• I2C, UART, PWM, and GPIOs
• Up to 6x MIPI CSI cameras
• eMMC 5.0 and SDIO 3.0 storage support
• LPDDR4 CoPoP memory

Intel Joule comes in two hardware configurations. The higher end model with a price of $369.99. This price is expensive as compared to Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi IoT boards but the only reason to buy it is that Intel's offering is a desktop class device in a small box.