VPX, AMC, and Compact PCI to feature i7 and QM57 chips
Loring Wirbel, Contributing Editor -- EDN, February 1, 2010
Kontron announced this week it will standardize on the use of the Intel i7, based on 32-nm process technology, across its entire product line, including VPX, Advanced Mezzanine Card, Compact PCI, and other board architectures. The Core i7 utilizes a dual-chip architecture, in which the i7 performs primary control-plane CPU duties, while the QM57 Express chipset performs I/O and advanced logic functions.
Kontron already has introduced the VX6060 and AM4020 based on i7, and plans on several additional product introductions across several bus architectures in the coming months.
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Kontron announced this week it will standardize on the use of the Intel i7, based on 32-nm process technology, across its entire product line, including VPX, Advanced Mezzanine Card, Compact PCI, and other board architectures. The Core i7 utilizes a dual-chip architecture, in which the i7 performs primary control-plane CPU duties, while the QM57 Express chipset performs I/O and advanced logic functions.
