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> The 10-100G ports are no extra cost. It is available on the SOC and brought out on the COM Express pins so we wanted it available for those that could use it.
by floatboth 8y ago
> The 10-100G ports are no extra cost. It is available on the SOC and brought out on the COM Express pins so we wanted it available for those that could use it. Additionally these are raw SERDES lanes so in theory could be attached to a PCIe expansion cage.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/29/clearfog-itx-workstation-ultimate-arm-developer-platform/#comment-561818 https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/29/clearfog-itx-worksta...
Looks like anyone who makes these 16-core A72 chips is making them for networking (this NXP one, Mellanox Bluefield is a somewhat similar idea I think). So you can't not pay the cost of the NIC that's on the chip already…