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Monday, July 2, 2007

Asus Eee to use Intel's Tolapai SoC?

Additional details from Linuxdevices -

The 3epc (Asus Eee) is based on an unspecified Intel processor and chipset. Given the laptop's low cost, it may well be among the first products based on Tolapai, Intel's forthcoming Pentium M-powered SoC (system-on-chip). Along with a Pentium M core clocked between 600MHz and 1.2GHz, initial Tolapai chips are expected to integrate components traditionally found in PC northbridges and southbridges - a graphics processing unit (GPU), external memory and storage controllers, and peripheral interfaces such as USB and Ethernet.

Asus said the 3ePC's graphics processing unit (GPU) will have a unified memory architecture (UMA), meaning it will borrow memory from the 3ePC's 512MB of DDR2-400 main system memory. Storage will be provided by between 2-16GB of Flash - presumably with frequently accessed filesystem points mounted on ramdisks.

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