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Re: Advantech Transmeta board news.

Great news!  Thanks for the update Bryan.

Aside:  Tom was the fellow I was dealing with when I bought my
5822+accessories.  A very helpful guy. :-)

Andrew.

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Bryan Hurley wrote:

> 
> I asked Advantech's  Embedded Group whether they were going to put the
> 582x board into a pc/104 form factor like Lanner, he didn't know, but they
> are working on a Transmeta based 2.5" board.
> 
> Here is the reply:
> Bryan Hurley
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:24:57 -0800 
> From: Tom Lum <>
> To: "''" <>
> Subject: RE: upcoming products?
> 
> Good question Bryan.
> 
> I cannot help you at this time.  Though Advantech is the manufacturer of all
> of our Single Board Computers, they are manufactured in Taiwan, and not in
> the United States.  All of our R &D is in Taiwan as well.
> 
> I have not heard of any of our new SBC taking on the PC104 form factor.
> Especially since the 5820 series is Pentium class.  We have, however, begun
> to introduce a line of smaller formfactor (ie. 2.5") SBC's that will be
> utilizing the Tramsmeta CPU board.  This is a board that will be utilizing
> its own CPU, but will be equivelent to (speed wise) a Pentium II-III. These
> boards use extremely low amounts of power.
> 
> Please call us periodically so that we can give you updates to this
> progression.
> 
> Tom Lum
> Sales Manager
> Advantech Technologies, Inc.
> (949) 789-7178 Ext. 129
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Hurley [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:59 AM
> To: 
> Cc: 
> Subject: upcoming products?
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering if you could comment on a possible near future
> product? Specifically, Advantech currently produces the
> PCM-5822. Lannerinc.com and in the USA, Lanner-usa.com produces a simliar
> product, the EM-350, both products have almost identical spcifications,
> chipsets used, and 3.5" drive size. Lanner recently announced the PC-2553,
> which is most of the same specifications in a PC/104 form factor.
> 
> I am interested in a Mulitmedia SBC and have heard great things about
> advantech, and little about Lanner, and I was wondering if you knew of any
> plans that you could discuss about putting the PCM-5822 into a PC/104
> form factor?
> 
> Thanks
> Bryan Hurley
> University of Maryland
> 
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