[Update] – more details about the Egreat Wintel Mini PCs can be found here.

A while ago I talked about Egreat and their plans.
Nothing major happened since then, no major products launched by Egreat (not outside China anyway).

But from what I’ve learned recently things are about to get better for the Chinese manufacturer.
We managed to get a sneak peek at the products that Egreat will announce at CES 2015:

	Egreat U10 Allwinner A80 octa-core CPU 2GB RAM, 16GB Gigabit ethernet+dual band wi-fi Bluetooth 4.0 Android 4.4
	Egreat I2 Intel Bay Trail 3735F CPU 2GB RAM, 32GB Bluetooth 4.0 Android/Windows 8
	Egreat I3 Intel Bay Trail 3735F CPU 2GB RAM, 32GB Bluetooth 4.0 Android/Windows 8
	Egreat I6 Intel Bay Trail 3735F CPU 2GB RAM, 32GB Bluetooth 4.0 Android/Windows 8
	Egreat A2 Realtek RTD1195 CPU External SATA port Android 4.4
	Egreat A6 Amlogic S812-H CPU (?) 2GB RAM, 16GB eMMC Gigabit ethernet + dual band, 2.4GHz/5.0GHz 300M WiFi 4K/2K H.265/HEVC hardware decoding External SATA port Android 4.4
	Egreat A9 Mstar MSO9180 CPU 2GB RAM, 16GB eMMC Gigabit Ethernet + dual band, 2.4GHz/5.0GHz 300M WiFi Internal 3.5” HDD Aluminum case with VFD Android 4.4 Can record from HDMI-IN in 1080P

Basically:
– Egreat takes a shot at the hottest CPU available now (Allwinner A80)- with it’s 8-cores and 64-cores CPU is expected to provide good performance for a while
– Egreat launches 3 “Wintel” models – they seem to share the same PCB, only different casing, which is not uncommon for Egreat
– Egreat A2, A6 and A9 are claimed to have full BD ISO support (including 3D), and they also have promised an UART port for “DIY development”
– also, they plan to launch internationally two Android-based game box devices, named Egreat K1 and respectively Egreat K3

Let’s see what will come out of this, 2015 could be an (E) great year 🙂