Just ran across your post. Coming over the summer we are releasing a mini-itx board based on https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/ That will be early release silicon. Production silicon will be end of 2019
The chip is 16 core 2ghz (maybe 2.2ghz for production), up to 64GB of DDR4
The board will be
ATX PSU / 12v input
4xSATA connectors
1xNVME (x4 lanes)
PCIe gen 4 x8 open slot (gen3 for LX2160A first silicon) PCIe add-in card
1x USB 3 in the back
2x USB 2.0 in the back
2x USB 3 header for front panel
2x USB 2.0 header for front panel
1xQSFP28 100Gbps cage (100Gbps/4x25Gbps/4x10Gbps)
1 1Gbps rj45 ethernet
RTC battery
Multiple FAN connectors; one of them with PWM / Tach
USB FTDI
USB to STM32 for remote management (on/off, remote SPI flash etc...)
The barebones board and COM will be sub $500. So adding all the bells and whistles you are going to looking at minimum $750 for a full working system. We have a proper Developer Workstation spec'd out in the $1300 range. Radeon GPU with multi-display support, 32GB of memory, 1TB NVME, nice looking compact mini-itx case, cooling loop etc.
Just for comparison a full ARM64 kernel build takes about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The same build on a ThreadRipper2 16 core / 32 thread takes 50 seconds. However the ThreadRipper is a 200Watt CPU and this is a 30Watt SOC
The chip is 16 core 2ghz (maybe 2.2ghz for production), up to 64GB of DDR4
The board will be ATX PSU / 12v input 4xSATA connectors 1xNVME (x4 lanes) PCIe gen 4 x8 open slot (gen3 for LX2160A first silicon) PCIe add-in card 1x USB 3 in the back 2x USB 2.0 in the back 2x USB 3 header for front panel 2x USB 2.0 header for front panel 1xQSFP28 100Gbps cage (100Gbps/4x25Gbps/4x10Gbps) 1 1Gbps rj45 ethernet RTC battery Multiple FAN connectors; one of them with PWM / Tach USB FTDI USB to STM32 for remote management (on/off, remote SPI flash etc...)
The barebones board and COM will be sub $500. So adding all the bells and whistles you are going to looking at minimum $750 for a full working system. We have a proper Developer Workstation spec'd out in the $1300 range. Radeon GPU with multi-display support, 32GB of memory, 1TB NVME, nice looking compact mini-itx case, cooling loop etc.
Just for comparison a full ARM64 kernel build takes about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The same build on a ThreadRipper2 16 core / 32 thread takes 50 seconds. However the ThreadRipper is a 200Watt CPU and this is a 30Watt SOC
Just a little heads up that options are coming.