[Arm-netbook] ARM SOC Pricing

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Wed Jan 18 20:54:10 GMT 2012


On 01/18/2012 02:46 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Maybe for EOMA110 (CompactPCIe)?

-Bari



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