We all know (and love?) ARM as the company which focusses on licensing designs for power-efficient yet still powerful processors, mostly used in embedded devices. The Cambridge company has been looking to expand into the netbook market, and has now announced a new step in this process with a number of new multicore Cortex-A9 designs.
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Member since:2007-05-19
Currently you can get this micro-atx form factor motherboard with Cortex-A9 or ARM11MPCore, but it will cost you:
http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/PB11MPCore.html
Member since:2008-08-28
Member since:2009-05-06
You guys seen the beagleboard?
http://beagleboard.org/
I nearly wet myself when I saw it. Perfect media pc hub.
My wife has reasoned with my though. For now...... ;-)
There is also the sheevaplug .
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkw...
But that lack all the video out stuff.
Computers are getting interesting again. Once freed from Windows, you freed from x86. :-)
Member since:2008-08-28
Yes, beagleboard is very nice thing - but if one doesn't need it to be so small, "regular" ATX-board will be more comfortable, with some slots available, no need to buy special add-ons just to connect keyboard and mouse (or to have serial port available).
I would like just to replace Intel-based ATX-mobo with ARM-based one. Unfortunately, it seems, there's a need for a (little?) patience.
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2006-01-18
I'm waiting for that too! anyone listening? we want regular ARM motherboards in standardized form factors!