Since Raspberry Pi has become a rather popular product, Microsoft has announced its vision of such a product, the Sharks Cove development board with a bit more performance punch and a higher price tag.


Aimed to be used for development of software and drivers on mobile device running on Windows OS, the Sharks Cove board packs a quad-core Atom Z3735G CPU clocked at 1.33GHz base and 1.83GHz Turbo Boost clocks, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card slot. Microsoft also ships the Sharks Cove with Windows 8.1 OS image.

The Sharks Cove board works with both Windows and Android OS and hardware for the motherboard will be available from CircuitCo.

The Raspberry Pi has mainly become popular due to its low price and while Sharks Cove sounds like a better board its US $299 price tag puts it in a whole different market range.



Source: Microsoft.com.