[Arm-netbook] ARM SOC Pricing

[Henrik Nordström]

ons 2012-01-18 klockan 04:52 +0000 skrev lkcl luke:

> > http://www.calxeda.com/assets/documents/products/ECX1000/ecx1000-pbr1_1.pdf
> 
>  hoooly woweee, 1333mhz low-voltage DDR3 RAM, SATA-II, PCI-e x4,
> quad-core cortex a9s, _multiple_ 10gig ethernet channels and 6 gigabit
> ethernet ports i've never heard of.  wow, that is one seriously deeply
> impressive chip.

Yes, and it's a seriously interesting system design with a builtin
80GBit interconnect ethernetswitch in each CPU allowing you to desugb
and scale system design quite differently from what one is used to. And
this in a hightly integrated SoC, basically only add memory and
connectors missing for making a complete system.

But it's clearly not a CPU for this project. But drooling a bit over it
anyway and dreaming of possible applications.

Quite notably there is no graphics at all in these. You can probably
throw a graphics controller on the PCIe bus if you need one, but I would
not expect anyone to actually need graphics in a system designed with
these beasts.

Regards
Henrik