[Arm-netbook] My little idea...

[Christopher Havel]

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 Guess the Wiki's a little out of date.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 at 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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