My understanding, which was based on the Wiki, was that gigabit and USB3 would be implemented later. Guess the Wiki's a little out of date. (No big.)
Just a thought on the x86 bit... I actually have a PicoITX board (super doober cheap eBay find!) that uses the Atom Z530 + NM10 chipset. It's Poulsbo PITA graphics but some Linuces do work, including a couple versions of Puppy. Oh right -- the PSU is a 5v 4a model...
Just a few thoughts on that sort of config...
Atom Z530 = 2.0w TDP NM10 PCH = 2.1w TDP
...so a Z530 + NM10 = 4.1w TDP.
According to CPU-World, the max power dissipation ever for a Z530 would be 4.64w. According to the NM10 datasheet (DC Characteristics on p225) and a bit of math, the maximum power dissipation in the S0 state would be 2.794w. That's a total of 7.434w, leaving a ton of room (electrically speaking) for a fan.
NM10 datasheet here --> http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/322896.pdf
Z530 "Recommended Customer Price" is $65.00. For the NM10 it's $20.00. (USD of course.) That said, there's a seller on eBay with the NM10 at $9 with free shipping -- although I can't vouch for their reputability! Worth noting also is that the Z530 CPU is not to be found by itself on eBay either. The eBay listing for the NM10 is here --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/400565337435
So maybe look at that config...? or is Intel incompatible with you guys for licensing reasons or something?
On 10/16/2013 3:53 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Here, have a scan, guys! --> http://i.imgur.com/f2lbm3R.jpg
just spotted something... on the other image... what was it.... oh yes! ethernet. you have to connect up all 8 wires - it's part of the spec that CPU cards will be up to gigabit and up to USB3.
There's the VGA interface. Any tweaks you want to add, add.
awesome.
By the way, I saw on the rhombus-tech site that there'll be possibly an x86 CPU Card -- I'm looking forward to that.
yeahh, me too. but... someone has to come out with a low-power x86 processor first!
l.
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