The A64 board has only 512 megabytes of RAM, the 1 GB and 2 GB versions are labeled "Pine A64+". It features a 1.2 GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53 64-Bit Processor, an ARM Mali 400 MP2 graphics processor unit, one HDMI 1.4a port, one MicroSD slot, two USB 2.0 ports and a 100 Megabit Ethernet port. The original Pine A64 boards released in 2016 are powered by the Allwinner A64 system-on-chip. Devices Īfter the initial Kickstarter orders for the Pine A64 single board computers had been satisfied, the company went on to create several successors, and later also added notebooks and a smartphone to the "Pine" family. As of late 2020, the standard form contract of binds all orders to the laws of Malaysia, while the products are shipped from warehouses in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. was dissolved while Pine Store Limited was incorporated on Decemin Hong Kong. based in Delaware, but all devices for the Kickstarter campaign were manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. The original Kickstarter page referred to the Pine64 Inc. The Kickstarter project was overshadowed by delays and shipping problems. The A64 was first funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in December 2015 which raised over $1.7 million. In 2015, Pine Microsystems offered its first product, the Pine A64, a single-board computer designed to compete with the popular Raspberry Pi in both power and price.
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( Fremont, California), founded by TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players sold under the Syabas and Cloud Media brands.
Pine64 initially operated as Pine Microsystems Inc.