Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ARM920 SBCs support Linux-based embedded apps
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Shenzhen-based embedded specialist Embest Info & Tech has added two
>> | more boards to its line of ARM920-based single-board computers (SBC).
>> | Both the SBC-2440-I and SBC-2440-II are supplied with support for Linux
>> | 2.6, according to the company.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2252155138.html
>>
>> PowerPC "COM Express Compact" module runs Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The highly-compact XCOM-9347 integrates a low-power, Freescale
>> | MPC8347E PowerQUICC II Pro processor, along with graphics,
>> | networking, and other interface ports, and is supplied with
>> | Linux support.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3941565757.html
>>
>> Nascent StackableUSB gains second SBC
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The SBC1496 implements a set of PC-compatible functions including
>> | graphics and networking, and can run Linux from an on-board
>> | CompactFlash card, according to the company.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2468264884.html
>>
>> Hardware support no longer a peril.
>
> These sbc's are beautiful. But why-oh-why so expensive? If one of these
> manufacturers would bring out an sbc with decent features and a sub $50.00
> price tag, they would take the market by storm...
>
> I can only dream... Imagine a 20 node cluster of 1Ghz sbc's... and costing
> less than $1000.00...
>
The price will fall rapidly, I'm sure, particularly when the OLPC XO
machines start to come in numbers onto the market. Also, Roy S has
posted something about sub £50 desktop machines being made in India,
too. This market is commoditising awfully rapidly, but it does
demonstrate just how much fat there was in it. I wonder which of the
last generation of major players will still be standing in 5 years time?
How many in 10 years? IBM did an amazing job of surviving the Windows
years, can Microsoft achieve the same trick? Not with their current
management, I think.
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