Mediatek's developer board features a 10-core chip and Android 6.0
Like PCs, developer boards like Raspberry Pi are getting more horsepower to run faster applications and 4K graphics.
Take the Mediatek X20 Development Board, which started shipping for $199 this week. It's crammed with the latest mobile chips that give the developer board PC-like computing power.
It has a 10-core Mediatek X20 chip, which is being used in new mobile devices from companies like Meizu and LeEco. The board comes with Android 6.0, and it's not yet known if it will be upgraded to Android 7.0.
There still isn't much need for 10 CPU cores in smartphones or tablets, but the developer board could put the chip to good use. Quad-core chips are considered powerful enough for handsets.
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