Future of Amlgic and CE

[Junoxe]

Hi, in this thread:

S905X4 – Would AMLogic have blocked the SoC for use in CoreELEC?

Best example: S912 There was never a mali blob released and will never be released. Maybe same happen on S905X4. As we already said on other places S905X4 is maybe locked and it maybe can never be used for non-Android platform, at least the hardware decoder. And as Ray said we do not have and never had contact to Amlogic as you will need to invest $k + sign a NDA to get access to the sources. This also mean NDA signed stuff can not be used anyway for a open source project. Example OSMC is no…

@Portisch (among other things) said:
“Right now it looks Amlogic force a Android direction only, so the end of CoreELEC.”

My question is. Should we say goodbye to Amlogic SBC as a CE (LE or else) platform? If i would like to have more or less long-term-box, what should I focus on?

My current box is Ugoos X2 Cube which is really good for my purposes. But i dont know if Matrix is last edition for S905X2. I think i will stick with it year or two?

@Ray

And I don’t say only cheap box vendors but also vendors like Ugoos or Minix, they share devices but that’s it.

Which vendors I should look on according to mid/long term support? If You could have crystal ball?

[Ray]

Please ask your question in one of the other threads and don’t open new discussions. There is your quoted thread and also a general S905X4 Thread. Thank you.