Ampro has just added two related products to its computer-on-module (COM) product line. The COM Express-based COM840 and XTX-based XTX840 both feature Core 2 Duo processors and Intel GMAX3100-based graphics. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system and application development. Some require free registration. (more…)

Shenzhen-based Embest Info & Tech has created an embeddable two-board sandwich that combines a tiny ARM9 daughtercard with a “PC/104-compliant” carrierboard. The EM104V1 obtains the bulk of its functionality from the tiny Mini2410-III CPU card, which in turn relies on a highly-integrated Samsung microcontroller. (more…)

Microsoft is going to need a bigger room next year. That's the inevitable take-away from last night's LinuxWorld-related event, once again hosted by Windows Embedded software architect and inveterate blogger Mike Hall. (more…)

A private R&D company in San Diego, Calif., has definitely proven the “Repo Man” axiom that “the more you drive, the less intelligent you are.” Axion Racing is using a Sony PS3 running Linux in an autonomous vehicle said to have driven Colorado's Pikes Peak. (more…)

Embedded Linux provider Wind River has forged a joint development, marketing, and support agreement with Motorola's network equipment division, it says. The “strategic alliance” aims to bring Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and VxWorks OSes to Motorola's AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA (pictured at left) products. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO — “Linux is the launching pad you need to stand on to be productive,” said Nokia's open source director, Ari Jaaksi, at LinuxWorld Wednesday. “We have never managed to bring out a product in such a short time, with so few resources,” he added, referring to Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablets. (more…)

[Updated Aug. 14] — Wind River has announced another design win for its Linux distribution targeting consumer electronics. AMX, which sells high-end industrial and home automation systems used in the White House's War Room and elsewhere, will switch its “Modero” touchpanels to Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux… (more…)

MontaVista, one of the first and still-largest vendors of embedded Linux development tools, is conspicuously absent from this year's LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. However, the company has released details about its own “Vision 2007” conference in October, touting it as the “only professionally-run conference focused strictly on embedded Linux.” (more…)

Mellanox Technologies has introduced Linux NFS-RDMA (network file system over remote direct memory access) support for its Infiniband adapters. The company claims its NFS-RDMA support delivers Infiniband read and write throughputs of 1.3GB/sec and 600MB/sec, respectively, over a single InfiniBand link, “a ten-fold improvement over existing NFS over Gigabit Ethernet.”

InfiniBand is a high-speed I/O… (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint will offer a Mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet to North American customers next year, LinuxDevices has learned. The new device will support Sprint's grand scheme of making WiMAX-based 4G wireless services available to over 100 million people during 2008. (more…)

Access has introduced a software reference design for Linux mobile phones based on Marvell's PXA30x and PXA31x (“Monahans”) embedded processors. At LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, the companies are demonstrating Marvell's “Littleton” reference design running Access Linux Platform (ALP), together with… (more…)

SyChip Inc. has announced the first in what it says will be a family of WiMAX modules. The WiMAX95xx supports embedded Linux, and “targets consumer electronics [devices]… where high integration and fast design cycles are highly valued.” (more…)

Raza Microelectronics Inc. (RMI) announced that two of its multi-core, multi-threaded MIPS-based processor families are now supported by Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux distribution. Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition (PNE-LE) includes multi-threaded debugging capabilities that speed development on RMIs XLR and XLS chip families, the companies claim. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO — It finally happened. Motorola last month quietly shipped its first Linux-based mobile phone “bound for North America,” it said. Additionally, the world's third-largest handset vendor (Mot was passed up by Samsung this year) is offering new “MotoMAGX” tools to support native Linux apps. (more…)