[Arm-netbook] TIL: Intel's credit-card sized modular computer is "inspired" by EOMA68

[Paul Boddie]

On Wednesday 8. February 2017 00.28.39 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> http://www.mouser.co.uk/pdfdocs/intel-joule-platform-mechanical-
descriptor.pdf
> 
>  looks completely different

Sorry, you're right! I saw something that resembled it, looked at the 
specifications which do include things like wireless networking, and forgot 
that they really are putting their Core line of CPUs into the Compute Card, 
whereas this other thing uses Atom, which one might have thought they'd be 
using for low power consumption. (I guess it was Atom and AMD's G-series that 
you very briefly considered for possible EOMA68 applications.)

Still, showering the market with products isn't likely to diminish consumer 
confusion, is it? Intel's own corporate attention span is as much a threat to 
this product as almost anything else.

Paul