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First Menlow Board Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the size-does-matter dept.

nerdyH writes "German board vendor Lippert has unveiled what it claims to be the first motherboard based on Intel's 'Menlow' chipset for ultra-mobile PCs. The CoreExpress-Menlow is smaller than a credit card, yet clocks to 1.5GHz, has 1GB of RAM soldered onboard, has multiple PCI Express lanes, USB 2.0, HD audio, an IDE interface, and a digital LVDS video interface. The board is the first in a proposed 'CoreExpress' standard motherboard form-factor measuring 2.6 by 2.3 inches (65 x 58 mm)."

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  1. Re:And it's probably going to be damn expensive by Enleth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But it would be a lot more than enough to handle the data analysis and mapping, especially with this amount of memory. AVRs, which I'm using now, have their limits, not in the clock speed (16MHz IS a lot for controlling quite a bit of a relatively simple robot's subsystems, a few times that is enough for the whole thing) but in the memory, a whopping 4-16KB of which is build into a typical one. Just no room for any serious data processing - and chasing the robot with a laptop and an RS232 cable attached to it is no fun.

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  2. Re:put a screen with it... by Gideon+Fubar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    screw that.. i wanna attach a 3g module and use it as a phone. ;)

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  3. Power by corychristison · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the article is skimping on details, but does anybody know where I can find more info on the power consumption? I doubt it's anywhere comparable to ARM... speaking of ARM. Anybody know where I can get a small ARM based board? I've been searching and searching, can't seem to find anything that isn't mass-order.