Bernard Levine, editor of Cahners ElectronicNews Online, reports that ZF Linux Devices Inc. has received $15M in funding and plans to target X86 PCs-on-a-chip for embedded applications. Levine writes . . .

“ZF Linux Devices Inc., a five-year-old Silicon Valley firm that started out developing multichip modules but is now targeting X86 PCs-on-a-chip for embedded applications, has won a host of investors, including National Semiconductor Corp. and Samsung, in a $15 million funding round.”

“The cash will be used for marketing and to begin volume production of the privately-held company's new MachZ PC-on-a-chip, as well as develop a family of MachZ-based Internet appliances. The chip, which is produced at National, and appliances designed around it, will be unveiled at PC Expo in New York next week.

“ZF Linux will unveil next week an ultra-low power X86 PC-on-a-chip for embedded applications with PhoenixBIOS from Phoenix Technology and a choice of customized Linux implementation or the WindRiver VxWorks real-time operating system.”

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