(Every time this thread pops up again, I knock on wood since my net6501-50s (with both heatsink revisions) have been bulletproof...)
WRT the net6801, sounds like it was probably a confluence of issues, mostly market-related. Intel C2000 problems aside, Asian ODMs are making viable inexpensive Celeron/Atom boxes, AMD got back in the cheap embedded game and PC Engines got the APU out the door 2 years after the net6501, and as Jan mentioned, ADI Engineering beat Soekris to market with all-Intel headless options with the Turbot and RCC boards (and then got acquired by Silicom, so they're set for cash.) Meanwhile, the new Soekris DACs seem like they're really good in their niche and also have the kind of margins that other Soekris designs enjoy. RE: Those Amazon bots, I was really surprised to see that was an article from 2016. I thought the net4526 was out of production for a decade+ On 4/7/2017 10:03, Jan Ceuleers wrote: > On 07/04/17 18:18, David Ruggiero wrote: >>> Maybe it's just me ... but this is the part that I find unlikely. Why >>> would a huge company like Intel do that? They already admitted that a >>> similar problem exists in related chipsets. >> I fully agree - weakest part of my argument. Why would Intel care >> about a customer whose total chip purchases amount to a rounding error >> in their yearly embedded system sales? Seems like they could just say >> "too bad". > My succession of little green boxes have now been succeeded by a > Netgate/ADI Engineering 2440, which has an Atom C2xxx CPU that has the > bug that's been in the press. But due to a fortunate coincidence the bug > can be sidestepped in software in this product, and I received an alert > from the company I purchased the product from containing information on > how to upgrade to a BIOS that works around the problem. > > So the kind of customer service we enjoyed years ago from Soekris, but > no longer. > > Jan > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
