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To: blake_paterson who wrote (41514)	5/7/2000 6:57:00 PM
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quoteserver.dogpile.com Flip-chip Pentium III gets play in Motorola's SBCs May. 05, 2000 (Electronic Engineering Times - CMP via COMTEX) -- TEMPE, ARIZ. - Motorola Computer Group is tapping into Intel Corp.'s Pentium III, in a flip-chip pin-grid array socket, as well as Intel's 840 chip set for two boards: a dual-processor ATX motherboard and a single-slot CompactPCI board computer. "Motorola's support of Intel's Pentium III represents a major step for our customers to densely pack more processing power than ever before onto a board and to continue to provide product longevity with these long-life processors," said Steve Kulpa, director of the company's cross-industry business unit. "These speed and memory enhancements will serve as a starting place for next-generation embedded boards, offering a minimum five-year life cycle," compared to the typical nine- to 12-month product life cycle typical for desktop applications, he said. Kulpa said that the 840 chip set lends the boards "133-MHz front-side-bus performance, as well as support for up to 4 Gbytes of Rambus memory, both 64-bit/66-MHz and 32-bit/33-MHz PCI buses, and 4X AGP graphics." The PATX5000 motherboard features a socketed dual-processor configuration and dual Rambus memory channels, but "with the addition of memory expansion 'trees,' the PATX5000 can use today's PC100 dual in-line memory modules," Kulpa said. "For OEMs looking to extend previous investments in ISA cards, the PATX5000 continues to provide legacy ISA support," he added, "but for OEMs requiring a high degree of integration in a standard ATX board, the PATX5000 offers dual-channel Ultra2 SCSI and dual 10/100 Ethernet capability, which reserves PCI and ISA slots for OEMs' proprietary or value-added functions." The dual-processor motherboard also provides a Type II CompactFlash socket, watchdog and interval timers, and hardware-monitoring features. It will be available in June with an estimated starting price of $950. The CPV5400 CompactPCI board can be configured with SDRAM or RDRAM using memory mezzanines for 128 Mbytes to 1 Gbyte of SDRAM or between 1 and 4 Gbytes of RDRAM. It features a PMC expansion site. The board will be available this month with an estimated starting price of $2,195. Call (800) 759-1107 www.motorola.com/computer EETInfo No. 632 eetimes.com