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News Release from: RadiSys Corporation | Subject: Endura LS855
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 July 2004
Motherboard exploits 90nm Pentium
processors
The Endura LS855 is one of the industry's first standard microATX embedded motherboards to support the Intel Pentium M processor 745.
The Endura LS855 is one of the industry's first standard microATX embedded motherboards to support the Intel Pentium M processor 745, one of Intel's latest mobile processors to be manufactured using 90nm process technology The LS855 is a member of Radisys' Endura family of embedded motherboards, which are used in transaction terminals, industrial automation, test and measurement, medical and gaming applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The LS855 builds on our promise of offering customers leading edge embedded solutions that help them develop better products faster and more economically".
"With Radisys extending their support of the Intel processor line to included the Intel Pentium M processor 745, they will be able to offer additional innovative solutions that satisfy the demanding performance and power needs of embedded customers", said Ton Steenman, General Manager, Embedded Intel Architecture Division, Intel Corp.
Using 90nm process technology, Intel has doubled the transistor count on the Intel Pentium M processor 745 to 140 million transistors.
This in turn has enabled Intel to double the L2 cache to 2Mbyte.
With this large, power optimised L2 cache and other architectural enhancements, the Intel Pentium M processor 745, which has a clock speed of 1.80GHz, offers faster execution of instructions at lower power consumption.
The Radisys Endura product line includes motherboards that incorporate a variety of Intel processors ranging from low power Intel Pentium M and Celeron M processors through scalable Intel Pentium 4 and Celeron processors to high performance dual Intel Xeon processors.
The LS855 is a standard 9.6 x 9.6in microATX embedded motherboard with three 32bit, 33MHz PCI slots and a 4x AGP/ADD slot.
Based on the Intel 855GME chipset, it supports Intel Pentium M and Celeron M processors at a bus speed of 400MHz.
Two memory slots support up to 2Gbyte DDR SDRAM also with the ability to use ECC memory.
The Intel 855GME chipset integrates the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 controller with support for dual independent video channels via a standard analogue VGA interface and a 24bit single-channel LVDS flat panel interface.
Integrated features include AC97 audio, a watchdog timer, system management and automatic fan-speed control.
Onboard I/O interfaces include a single 10/100 Ethernet port, six USB 2.0 ports, two serial ports, a parallel port, PS/2 ports and a 13bit GPIO port.
The Radisys LS855 is currently in production configured with an Intel Pentium M processor at 1.60GHz at an MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail price for unit quantities) of $861.
From June 2004, Radisys will also be taking orders for the LS855 with the Intel Celeron M processor at 1.30GHz and the Intel Pentium M processor 745.
The MSRPs for these two processor options are $593 and $1226, respectively.
Discounts are available for OEM quantities.
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