Hi, I am a glad to announce that cubieboard2, a upgrade of current cubieboard, is ready to ship now.

Thanks to Allwinner’s pin-to-pin compatible A20 chip with A10, we can do a seamless hardware upgrade to the current cubieboard. Just replacing one chip(well, the most important one) and we can upgrade from a single core to a dual core and twice gpu performance, and even no change is needed on the PCB. So all the base boards, accessories that works with cubieboard will also fit in with cubieboard2.

Block diagram of A20 processor

Below is the full specification of cubieboard2:

CPU ARM® Cortex™-A7 Dual-Core GPU ARM® Mali400MP2, Complies with OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 Memory 1GB DDR3 @960M Storage 4GB internal NAND flash, up to 64GB on uSD slot, up to 2T on 2.5 SATA disk Power 5VDC input 2A or USB otg input Networking 10/100 ethernet, optional wifi USB Two USB 2.0 HOST, one USB 2.0 OTG Other One IR Extended Interfaces 96 extend pin interface, including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP, and more

On the software side, cubieboard2 support both android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Ubuntu 12.04 and other Linux distributions. Android Jelly Bean improves on speed and simplicity and brings a lot of new feature. For completely introductions of Jelly Bean, please check out android website.