I think the geode+ddr that you are referring to is the AMD Geode GX2. It's being sold in India (typically together with broadband packages) as the basis for a low cost computer called the AMD PIC. It's priced at USD$185 without a monitor and has DDR330 128MB RAM, 10GB hdd, audio, [EMAIL PROTECTED] video. It's a 400MHz part, the GX533 label, I think comes from it's "equivalent performance" measurement.
and no ethernet, sigh.
The PIC is part of a marketing campaign called 50x15 "affordable Internet access and computing for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015"
http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_12264,00.html
We've been approached at times to design similar platforms for the 3rd world. A x86 Linux machine with LinuxBIOS that also supports M$ with enough power to run basic apps (word processing, browser, MPEG etc.) and is real low cost <$100 and is as idiot proof as possible.
of curiosity. How much do you guesstimate it would increase cost of the PIC if they add added built-in ethernet to it? $0.50 ? (not really sure if Geode cpu has build in ethernet or not).
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