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Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Datasound Laboratories | Subject: ICOP-6270, 6242 and 6247
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 February 2006
CPU cards bring new life to old designs
A new range of embedded CPU cards based on the VIA Mark CoreFusion CPU offer an answer to the phasing out of existing Eden- and C3-based boards.
The imminent obsolescence of the VIA Eden and C3 CPUs and the consequential availability issues with board level products using these parts, leaves OEMs, systems builders and integrators with a real dilemma Currently available alternatives are either too power hungry, and thus introduces a heat extraction aspect not previously encountered, or the wrong footprint necessitating a complex repackaging task
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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