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Cell Computing 700MHz PnR's just announced

From: Christopher Allen <>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:50:19 -0700 (PDT)

Along with the new NetCARD II, Cell Computing has just announced the new
700MHz Plug'N'Run and 700MHz RazorBlade (thinner, lighter version of the
PnR which AFAIK only works off the shelf in its own proprietary and
*large* dev board, meaning it won't plug into the NetCARDs that the
PnR can plug into):
http://www.cellcomputing.com/

Power consumption is TBD on these so far, but I'm not expecting good news
because (as is the trend with embedded manufacturers to not use the
latest, lowest power CPUs) they don't appear to be using the new
ultra-low-voltage .13 micron process Pentium III-m. The reason I surmise
this is they list the backside cache as only 256K whereas I happen to know
that the PIII-m comes with 512K.

I hope I'm wrong about this, but embedded manufacturers never seem to fail
to disappoint at every opportunity that presents itself.

On a related note, Cell will show off this new hardware at the Embedded
Systems Conference in Boston in just a few days. Free passes available
here:
http://www.esconline.com/boston/freepass.htm

-Chris

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