The big news would be if Intel gave their support to
Dothan + Alviso on the desktop, or for the SFF market.
It would - and create a broad P-M offering in that area.
o DFI, AOpen have retail-ish boards
---- although hard to find
o Commell & others have Mini-itx/SBC/EBC boards
---- although pricey, there IS a good niche here
What's lacking is a critical mass of uptake:
o EPIA is ~225$US/~£150 for 1.2Ghz, CF/PCMCIA & 12V input
---- which importantly includes the CPU
o P-M is ~350$US/~£189 without the CPU, 12V input
---- but importantly is about 4-5x faster
The P-M is fantastic re CPU-v-Heat in SFF/Embedded, but
there's precious little uptake in retail & "proven platform".
The P4-M is a lot cheaper, at least on CPU as well as board.
The new P-M chipset will help matters - although actual end
product offering such may lag being industrial mkt aimed. A
Dual-Core P4 is great, but the P-M has notable potential.
