[Arm-netbook] i.mx53 listed on digikey

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<dave at treblig.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I was trying to follow up on the MX6 discussion; but steev
> on #arm-netbook pointed me at the MX53; and I noticed that they
> were actually up on Digikey:
>
> http://www.digikey.co.uk/product-detail/en/MCIMX535DVV1CR2/MCIMX535DVV1CR2-ND/2674258
>
> It's an interesting one; it has the onboard ether; and although
> the digikey page doesn't say it, as far as I can tell from the Freescale
> docs it does have SATA.

 yes.  it looks like an extremely good option.  bizarrely it's
competing directly against the A10 feature-for-feature.  but, the one
thing it does have is a "guaranteed committment" roadmap / lifetime
from freescale.

 so, that's why someone contacted us and asked for a quote to make an
EOMA-68 CPU Card using the iMX53 CPU (and some I/O Boards to match
it), even though it'll be relatively small quantities (4k per year)
for them.

 i've passed on the quote to the engineering team that we're working
with: i should have more details available soon.  if the client goes
for it we will have a 2nd EOMA-68 CPU Card available.

at the same time as the quote is passed over to the client i could
perhaps mention that there may be other uses and other people
interested in such a CPU Card, which would help bring the price down
for everyone.

 also if there's anyone who would like to quote for supply of a base
gnu/linux Operating System for the client please do let me know.

 l.