Giveaway Week 2023 – i-Pi SMARC 1200 devkit with Mediatek Genio 1200 Cortex-A78/A55 SoC

We’ll end this year’s Giveaway Week with a pretty powerful development kit – ADLINK i-Pi SMARC 1200 – powered by a MediaTek Genio 1200 octa-core processor with four Cortex-A78 cores @ up to 2.2 GHz, four Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Mali Mali-G57 MC5 GPU, 4K hardware video decoding and decoding support, and a 4.8 TOPS NPU.

The mainboard is comprised of a SMARC 2.1-compliant system-on-module with 4GB LPDDR4 memory and 64GB UFS storage and fitted with a heatsink for cooling as well as a carrier board with a 4Kp60 capable HDMI 2.0 port, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a 3.5mm audio jack, two 40-pin headers for I/Os including one compatible with the 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header, plus LVDS connectors, MIPI CSI camera connectors, and M.2 expansion slots for storage and/or wireless expansion.

i-Pi SMARC 1200 Yocto Linux glmark2 benchmark

I tested the MediaTek Genio 1200 devkit with a Yocto Linux image last June and ran some of the built-in benchmarks to evaluate the CPU, GPU, AI performance (with CPU or GPU but not using the NPU yet), and memory bandwidth. The UFS flash was tested with FIO reporting over 500MB/s sequential read speed and 169MB/s sequential write speed. So the performance of the kit is really good in all aspects.

But there was still some work to do on the software front at the time, as I failed to use an M.2 SSD, and another person had issues with a WiFi module, plus the AI demos did not include the 4.8 TOPS AI accelerators. Nearly five months have passed since then, so I’d expect better support for Yocto Linux now. The company is also working on Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 and Android 13 support, but I was just told those were still under testing and not quite ready for release at this time.

i-Pi SMARC 1200 giveaway

The i-Pi SMARC 1200 kit in the giveaway includes all the items in the photo above, with the board itself, the power supply and power cord, a micro USB cable, and a Quick Starter Guide. However, I removed the RTC battery to avoid potential issues with shipping.

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 a.m. (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner. Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
  • Shipping
    • $28 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete. If PayPal is not an option in your country, we can try to find another payment solution.
    • All prizes will be shipped at the same time once we get all the winners, so around November 15.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.

Good luck to all! ADLINK’s i-Pi SMARC 1200 can also be purchased on the company’s online store for $379 plus shipping. Note the kit there includes a WiFi module, that was not included in the review sample I received.

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Marcin Dąbrowski
21 days ago

Poland – I’d love to finish what you have started.

Ingmar Guillaume
Ingmar Guillaume
21 days ago

From Belgium.
This looks like a fantastic dec board

Nate Rees
Nate Rees
21 days ago

Very nice! United States

KunYi Chen
KunYi Chen
21 days ago

love from Taiwan

Ramin
Ramin
21 days ago

Iran

Shubham
Shubham
19 days ago

India – I like testing llm on SBCs

Igor Moura
21 days ago

That’s a really powerful ARM board, I’d love to have it!
Thanks from Brazil 🙂

Chris Wilson
21 days ago

Hi from the SF Bay Area in the USA!

Lyle Holyoak
Lyle Holyoak
21 days ago

United States, Montana

Jisheng Zhang
Jisheng Zhang
21 days ago

Hi from China

Jason
Jason
21 days ago

Excellent, united States

maurer
maurer
21 days ago

want one in Romania

Christoph Appel
Christoph Appel
21 days ago

Germany – great stuff

Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
21 days ago

Greetings from Bulgaria!

Chris Ivarsson
Chris Ivarsson
21 days ago

Good morning from cold Sweden 🙂

Kobe
Kobe
21 days ago

Canada, good luck everyone

Pan Pe
21 days ago

Hello from Canada! These SBCs with NPUs are getting more popular eh?

Boris Emery
Boris Emery
21 days ago

Like it, France

Salvador
Salvador
21 days ago

Argentina, Microlinux here

Jakub
Jakub
21 days ago

Greetings from rainy Poland

Eli
Eli
21 days ago

Greetings from Israel

Vlastimil Skacel
Vlastimil Skacel
21 days ago

Hi from Czech Republic

Xtract
Xtract
21 days ago

I would love to see one in Germany!

Gabriel R
Gabriel R
21 days ago

Hello from the US

Linumiz
21 days ago

Happy Diwali from India!

Rudi
Rudi
21 days ago

From Melbourne, Australia

Bezeria
21 days ago

Netherlands

q4a
21 days ago

Looks good. Russia

tenerya
tenerya
21 days ago

Germany
Great chance to work with a SMARC module!

Balazs Gy
Balazs Gy
21 days ago

Hungary – quite powerful, I would love to play with it.

Codrut R.
Codrut R.
21 days ago

Romania, thanks!

khiem
khiem
21 days ago

Vietnam

Pascal C.
Pascal C.
21 days ago

Hi from France o/

David Carlson
21 days ago

Mobile sensor gathering and analytics platform

khiem
khiem
21 days ago

From Vietnam

Balázs Gyenge
Balázs Gyenge
21 days ago

Greetings from Hungary. 🙂

Cezary
Cezary
21 days ago

Poland

Alex Mina
21 days ago

Greetings from Ukraine!

Ye th
Ye th
21 days ago

Singapore

SRY
SRY
21 days ago

Indonesia

Erik S
Erik S
21 days ago

Greetings from Sweden 😀

Jasbir
Jasbir
21 days ago

Hello from UK

STr
STr
21 days ago

Hello to all, from Russia!

tester99
tester99
21 days ago

Looks cool! From USA.

Ahmed
Ahmed
21 days ago

From Saudi Arabia

James Nugen
James Nugen
21 days ago

Nice dev board! United States

Aaron Melville-Smith
Aaron Melville-Smith
21 days ago

Australia.
Very nice.

Rob Brown
Rob Brown
21 days ago

Hello from New Zealand 🙂

Jimmy
Jimmy
21 days ago

Hello from the USA

Klaudiusz
Klaudiusz
21 days ago

Hello from Poland

Sathish Guru
Sathish Guru
21 days ago

Hello from India!

Alex
Alex
21 days ago

Hello from Russia

Da Xue
Da Xue
21 days ago

USA CI

frostworx
frostworx
21 days ago

Greetings from Germany

Rui Cruz
Rui Cruz
21 days ago

hello from Portual

Philippe Sannier
Philippe Sannier
21 days ago

France – I would love to play with this board

Victor
Victor
21 days ago

Belgium

Peter Steenbergen
21 days ago

Greetings from The Netherlands

Magnus
Magnus
21 days ago

Hello from Finland!

Pch Simon
Pch Simon
21 days ago

Hello from Germany 🙂

wxt
21 days ago

United States – nice board

Ward
Ward
21 days ago

I’m from United States, North Carolina.
I would love to win ADLINK i-Pi SMARC 1200 and learn how to use Ubuntu and Android 13.

Cheers 🙂

Pim
Pim
21 days ago

Netherlands

Ezneh
Ezneh
21 days ago

Greetings from Belgium!

Alx
Alx
21 days ago

Greetings from Belarus!

Vasco Braga
21 days ago

This one will definitely come to Portugal! Thank you!

Boris
Boris
21 days ago

Hi from Croatia

haiko
haiko
21 days ago

Hello from Czechia!

Lasha
Lasha
21 days ago

Hello from Georgia

Sayan
21 days ago

Commenting from the Netherlands.. Thanks for your excellent indepent reviews!

Luna Snow
Luna Snow
21 days ago

United States! Thank you!

Vincent
Vincent
21 days ago

Greetings from France

Flustered
Flustered
21 days ago

Hello from the far away land of the United States!

21 days ago

hello fron Serbia

Loki
Loki
21 days ago

Hello from France !

Sangyong Gwak
21 days ago

Hello from South Korea

Caio Pedreira
Caio Pedreira
21 days ago

Hello from Brazil !!

Gabriel Kanes
Gabriel Kanes
21 days ago

Thanks for the contests from USA!

Jul
Jul
21 days ago

Awesome!
Greetings from Germany

Loic
Loic
21 days ago

Greetings from Switzerland 🙂

Darius
Darius
21 days ago

Looks amazing
United Kingdom

Ivan Podogov
21 days ago

United Kingdom

Toby
Toby
21 days ago

Hi from Sweden !

David
David
21 days ago

Greetings from Spain.

Dean
Dean
21 days ago

Malaysia here!

George
George
21 days ago

Very powerful kit, thank you! Hi from The Netherlands.

TLS
TLS
21 days ago

Sweden

urostor
urostor
21 days ago

Hello from Poland

Toms
Toms
21 days ago

Cheers from Latvia!

Juha
Juha
21 days ago

Finland. Looks a bit tight on the memory side, otherwise surely worth a spin.

Willy
Willy
21 days ago

After all, why not. -> France

Florent
Florent
21 days ago

Hello from France. What a powerful arm dev board.

SmittyTech
21 days ago

United States – I’d love to automate something with that board and Python!

Elias
Elias
21 days ago

Hello from Brazil

Oleksii Os.
Oleksii Os.
21 days ago

Greetings from Ukraine!
Nice board (with decent specs. at least) 🙂

Kuan-Yi Li
Kuan-Yi Li
21 days ago

Hello from Taiwan!

Bie Lamon
Bie Lamon
21 days ago

From Belgium.
Wow. What a kit!

Kubo
Kubo
21 days ago

Slovakia

Kwinten Guillaume
Kwinten Guillaume
21 days ago

Hello from Belgium. Best of luck all

Joren Guillaume
Joren Guillaume
21 days ago

Greetings again from Belgium, definitely have a use for this. 😀

Alonso
Alonso
21 days ago

Awesome giveaway! Greetings from Germany!

8bitsquid
8bitsquid
21 days ago

United Kingdom here!

michael zweers
michael zweers
21 days ago

The Netherlands

Andrejs
Andrejs
21 days ago

Switzerland

Dieter
21 days ago

Hello again from Belgium!

Biasio95
Biasio95
21 days ago

Amazing stuff!
Greetings from Italy!

Daniel Valleskey
Daniel Valleskey
21 days ago

I wonder if all that CPU and GPU power could even be utilized to it’s fullest with only 4gb of memory

Юрий Шалкин
21 days ago

Hello from Russia!

Shivendoo Deshmukh
Shivendoo Deshmukh
21 days ago

Hello from India!
Would love to get my hands on this powerful module

inspector
inspector
21 days ago

Russia

Romain
Romain
21 days ago

Hi from France

Pio Rommel Dasal
21 days ago

Philippines
Love reading your articles. This SBC would make a great replacement for my old Pi.

Luc
Luc
21 days ago

This looks pretty cool. Especially if “it’s for free”, cause, otherwise it’s definitively overpriced for me/spec+sw support.

Regards from France

Ryan Tennill
Ryan Tennill
21 days ago

Rockin in the USA

David Dederscheck
David Dederscheck
20 days ago

Greetings from Germany! I am always excited at the prospect of energy-efficient ARM based interface-rich SoCs for various applications.

Scott P.
Scott P.
20 days ago

USA – MediiaTek has been killing it lately!

Edward
Edward
20 days ago

United States

Occam
Occam
20 days ago

Nice. Tennessee, USA

Marco
Marco
20 days ago

Italia
Well done!

Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
20 days ago

Greatings from the United States of America. Great content.

Maroc
Maroc
20 days ago

Italia. Well done!

Artem
Artem
20 days ago

Ukraine
Interesting piece of hardware 😉

Pantelis
Pantelis
20 days ago

Greece. Greetings
Nice hardware to play around

Tung Nguyen Huy
Tung Nguyen Huy
20 days ago

I would love to have, Vietnam

Yuri
Yuri
20 days ago

from Russia with love

Kienan A
20 days ago

Neat kit — From America

Dmsc
Dmsc
20 days ago

No comments yet from Chile!

Philip
Philip
20 days ago

USA!

itchy n scratchy
itchy n scratchy
20 days ago

Sounds like fun!
Switzerland

NikolaS
NikolaS
20 days ago

Serbia

Rachid
20 days ago

Hello from Morocco

Jeroen Wolf
20 days ago

Great stuff, grts from the Netherlands

Greg Dalton
20 days ago

From Canada…🍁👍

Guillaume
Guillaume
20 days ago

Hi from France

kamila
20 days ago

Poland – I’d love to play around with a Mediatek board for a change, Qualcomm is getting boring

KotCzarny
20 days ago

poland

Arvo
Arvo
20 days ago

Hi from Latvia!

Hicham
Hicham
20 days ago

Bonjour de France

Max
Max
20 days ago

Hi from Texas, USA!

Johan Rydmark
Johan Rydmark
20 days ago

This would be fun to work on here in Sweden.

Abbadon
Abbadon
20 days ago

Hi from The Netherlands

Leroi
Leroi
20 days ago

United States

Ro Phelan
Ro Phelan
20 days ago

Hi from NZ

Jaz
Jaz
20 days ago

UK – good luck all

Hong
Hong
20 days ago

USA. MediaTek now can make processors as powerful as Qualcomm.

Sheng
Sheng
20 days ago

Canada

Dainis
20 days ago

Hi from Latvia!

dedecou
dedecou
20 days ago

From Brazil, wow this one is incredible.
Ending the giveaway week in a very high note.

Midgy
20 days ago

Hey from France 🇫🇷

DressMA
DressMA
20 days ago

Greetings from United Kingdom !

Walter
Walter
20 days ago

Spain

Erik
Erik
20 days ago

Poland.
Awesome little device

Jose Xavier
Jose Xavier
20 days ago

From Portugal with love!

Bryce
Bryce
20 days ago

From Malaysia, great content as usual!!

Abhishek Kalyankar
Abhishek Kalyankar
20 days ago

Hello from Mumbai, India

Ian
Ian
20 days ago

United States

Lalith
Lalith
20 days ago

Hello from United Kingdom .. cool board .. good luck everyone

L_oled
20 days ago

France!

W Zhang
W Zhang
20 days ago

Looks really nice, from United States

udif
udif
20 days ago

Thanks from Israel

Albert
Albert
20 days ago

Hello from the United States of America..

Mika
Mika
20 days ago

Hello from Finland

Patrick McDonnell
Patrick McDonnell
20 days ago

G’Day from Australia

ANISSE
ANISSE
20 days ago

From France with luv

Nand
Nand
20 days ago

Brazil

Oliver K
Oliver K
20 days ago

Germany

Arina
Arina
20 days ago

Greetings from Saint Petersburg, Russia!!!

Thomas Lopes
Thomas Lopes
20 days ago

From USA. Looks nice

R B
R B
20 days ago

United States

Andrea R
Andrea R
20 days ago

Hello from Italy!

Tim Fischbach
Tim Fischbach
20 days ago

Hello from Germany!

Leandro
Leandro
20 days ago

Hi from Italy!

Edward Hunt
Edward Hunt
20 days ago

Washington, United States
I would love a board for tinkering.

Aashitech
Aashitech
20 days ago

INDIA

tvall
tvall
20 days ago

United States. looks like a fun board

Alex Tsai
Alex Tsai
20 days ago

Nice. From Taiwan

Bill
Bill
20 days ago

This will be very popular indeed. UK.

Matt
Matt
20 days ago

Greetings from Galapagos!

Kedar Koppikar
Kedar Koppikar
20 days ago

From India

Zuan Nguyen
Zuan Nguyen
20 days ago

From Vietnam with love “D

Alfio Bosco
Alfio Bosco
20 days ago

Ciao from Italy

Andrew
Andrew
20 days ago

Hello from USA

Hai-Ninh Dang
Hai-Ninh Dang
20 days ago

Xin chào, from Vietnam

someone
someone
20 days ago

here’s a friendly “moin” from germany

pon
pon
20 days ago

Greetings from Thailand

John Ross Hunt
John Ross Hunt
20 days ago

Greetings from Chicago IL, United States.

Jake Eberly
Jake Eberly
20 days ago

United States – Always love to have new equipment on the bench!

Joe Bleau
Joe Bleau
20 days ago

USA!

Hoang vo
Hoang vo
20 days ago

Hello from Vietnam

Thom Scatliff
Thom Scatliff
20 days ago

USA. Looks good once the OS is ready.

TonyT
TonyT
20 days ago

United States

Thiago Rocha
Thiago Rocha
20 days ago

Good luck everyone!
United States

lifelion
lifelion
20 days ago

Ne pas laisser passer. France!
Thank you

RazorBurn
20 days ago

Australia

Karpiu
Karpiu
20 days ago

Great device for me. Poland

mlopez
mlopez
20 days ago

I would love it. From Spain

arprip
arprip
20 days ago

From Taiwan

Sushionroad
Sushionroad
20 days ago

Germany

Phan Hoang Dinh
Phan Hoang Dinh
20 days ago

From Vietnam

jeanrhum
jeanrhum
20 days ago

Hello from France!

Sergey
Sergey
20 days ago

Latvia

Peter Matthiaas
20 days ago

Stupid rainbow-land needs this!

Taiyou Kuo
Taiyou Kuo
20 days ago

Really interested in this kit, from Taiwan

Werner Oscar
20 days ago

Hello from Ghana, the dev board specs look great for wireless sensor network projects.

Phillemon
Phillemon
20 days ago

I can’t wait to be put my hands on it.l think these device is a game changer

Ken James
Ken James
20 days ago