HiKey

The ?HiKey is based on a ?HiSilicon Kirin processor. There are two variants of the ?HiKey: the original from CircuitCo and a new version in 1GB and 2GB variants from LeMaker.

Technical specification

CPU

?HiSilicon Kirin 620 1.2 GHz

GPU

Mali 450-MP4

RAM

1GB (?CircuitCo or ?LeMaker) or 2GB (?LeMaker)

Storage

4GB (?CircuitCo) or 8GB (?LeMaker) eMMC flash

WIFI

yes

Audio

yes

Bluetooth

yes

Connectors

micro SD, USB (2 standard, 1 micro), HDMI

Other

96Boards 40-pin low speed and 60-pin high speed expansion connector

Debian support

The ?HiKey uses UEFI, so Debian should work out of the box once there's a kernel.

Kilian Krause requested ARCH_HISI to be enabled in the kernel recently. However, it seems that ?HiSilicon Kirin support in the kernel is still very basic (e.g. no USB support).