By David Ponce
We’re digging where all this miniaturization business is going. Just take a look at PQI’s wonderfully engrished, credit card sized U510 advert. And it seems like the expression “Credit card sized” is the de-facto standard when it comes to conveying to consumers just how small something is.
The CM-X270L, from Israeli company Compulab is no exception. It’s essentially a fully-fleshed PC that happens to be the size of (you guessed it) a credit card.
The CM-X270L measures just 4.4 x 6.6 cm. In comparison, a MiniPCI wireless card is 6.0 x 4.4 cm – just half a centimetre thinner.
In this space, the CM-X270L somehow manages to fit in an Intel (should that be Marvell?) XScale chip running Windows CE or Linux, half a gig of flash, 128MB of RAM, AC?97 sound and a Philips 802.11b wireless interface, as well as some things you wouldn?t find on a PDA, such as a PCI bus, 4 USB host ports and wired networking.
Course, it’s not something Average Joe consumer will buy. Rather, it’s meant to serve as a building block in embedded applications, and will set your company back $47 per unit, so long’s you order at least 10,000.
[Compulab’s CM-X270L] VIA [Digg]
Credit Card-Sized PC…
Computers are getting even smaller, and this CM-X270 from Compulab of Israel is the size of a credit card. It’s a real PC, with four USB ports, a PCI bus, 128MB of RAM, a 512MB flash memory card, AC ’97……
Hello,
We are interested in being able to obtain prices of kit of development for this card, cm-x270 which attached in the Link.
https://ohgizmo.com/2006/06/28/credit-card-sized-computer/
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A greeting,
Rosa Soriano
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