[Arm-netbook] 12in laptop story

[Alejandro Mery]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 16:57, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>> El 31/01/11 23:08, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton escribió:
>>>
>>> oh - one other reason for ruling out "stock" BBxM and pandaboards:
>>> 512mb RAM, POP.  insanely expensive, difficult to assemble (requires
>>> plasma tooling) and i don't even wanna think about the cost of a 1gb
>>> POP RAM chip.
>>
>> starting a project with an already dying technology (cortex-a8 or older) is
>> kind of dumb,
>
>  weelll, not if it fulfils other markets (HDMI out, 1080p video), but
> yes i do know what you mean.  i'm presently seeing if phytec can
> license their spear1310 system-on-module.
>
>  http://www.phytec.com/news/ZT-Systems-R1801e-Server.html
>
> it might not have HDMI out, it might not even have LCD out, we just
> have to see what they say.  it _was_ designed for a server, after all.
>

I suggested the i.MX6 as genesi already has contact with them, seems
to fulfil all requirements and to compete with TI they *may* be more
cooperative.