Well, the SpursEngine was originally stated to be used in low power applications like TVs and laptops.
But, I'm quite interested in this particular board as it looks fairly sparsely populated. If that chip can indeed be passively cooled with a thin heat sink, wouldn't it be neat if they packaged it down to fit in a mini-PCIe slot for use in laptops? Finally, a piece of tech to use in my laptop's spare mini-PCIe slot next to the WiFi card.
Alternatively, perhaps they could fit it into an ExpressCard form factor and use the PCIe x1 connection there.
Though after thinking about it, they probably can't do it any time soon with that power envelope of 10-20 watts. It might be doable with a lower voltage, lower clock speed variant in a smaller manufacturing process in the near future, though.
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Re: 1x PCIe
Well, the SpursEngine was originally stated to be used in low power applications like TVs and laptops.
But, I'm quite interested in this particular board as it looks fairly sparsely populated. If that chip can indeed be passively cooled with a thin heat sink, wouldn't it be neat if they packaged it down to fit in a mini-PCIe slot for use in laptops? Finally, a piece of tech to use in my laptop's spare mini-PCIe slot next to the WiFi card.
Alternatively, perhaps they could fit it into an ExpressCard form factor and use the PCIe x1 connection there.
Though after thinking about it, they probably can't do it any time soon with that power envelope of 10-20 watts. It might be doable with a lower voltage, lower clock speed variant in a smaller manufacturing process in the near future, though.