San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Team ASA Inc. today announced NPWR, the first single board computer (SBC) designed for manufacturers and OEMs in the Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID, and Personal Server marketplaces. Npwr is powered by the Intel Xscale processor, a RISC CPU with clock rates reaching as high as 733 MHz.

Every Npwr is factory configured with a Flash disk running Linux, to ensure expedited product development, and comes complete with Team ASA's Linux port on CDROM. The Npwr Linux CDROM also includes all tools, documentation, and sources needed to make Npwr-based product development an immediate success.

The Npwr's onboard resources include a 4 or 8 MB Flash ROM, real time clock, 19-bit external timer/counter, 1 Gbit Ethernet interface, and a high performance 320/160 MB/sec PCI 64-bit wide SCSI interface.

The Npwr form-factor is uniquely configured to take only a half height 5.25 slot on any external box or CPU case. The Npwr can be used as a stand-alone Linux server and an embedded RAID controller. Multiple units can be used to implement Linux clustered servers.

Team ASA will begin shipping three different versions of the Npwr on June 1 st, 2001. Suggested retail pricing for the 466 MHz Npwr is $1,195; the 600 MHz Npwr is $1,295 and the pricing for the 733 MHz Npwr is $1,395.

 
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