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Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blue-car-of-death dept.

Yooden_Vranx writes "speedtv.com reports that beginning in 2008, Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1. Apparently, moving to a single supplier is part of the FIA's (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) attempts to cut costs. The article does not clarify whether this cost reduction is enabled by cutting back on tech support, what percentage of the engine's power will be required to run all the 'features' embedded in the device, or whether 'crash' will now refer primarily to software behavior rather than driving incidents."

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  1. Tagging WTF by distantbody · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pardon for being off topic, but HTF do I know what others have tagged a story, other than the static 'examples'? I'm not a nube, but maybe I must have missed something...

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