Rock Pi X: An affordable Raspberry Pi alternative with an Intel Cherry Trail processor that costs less than US$40

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The Rock Pi X is like a cross between an Atomic Pi and a Raspberry Pi, but even more affordable. Radxa equips the 85 x 52 mm developer board with an Intel Atom x5-Z8300 processor, up to 4 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, along with a host of ports and connections including an HDMI 1.4 that can output in up to 4K. The Rock Pi X has a 40-pin Raspberry Pi compatible header too and supports several OSs including Android, Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04 and other Linux distributions. The Rock Pi X will start at US$39 and rise to US$75 for the most expensive model.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Rock-Pi-X-An-affordable-Raspberry-Pi-alternative-with-an-Intel-Cherry-Trail-processor-that-costs-less-than-US-40.434765.0.html

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How is it so cheap? Is Intel trying to shift loads of outdated CPUs or something?

Assuming they aren't horribly broken somehow, I hope these will actually be purchaseable in the UK.