On 10/25/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After some digging I found a much cheaper source. > Segor electronics ( http://www.segor.de/ ) sells single PLCC32 plug-ins > for 14.00 Euro (including 16% german sales tax). Quantities above 10 > cost 11.20 Euro per part. If you're ordering from the US, you can > get a tax refund (or maybe the tax won't even be applied in the first > place).
Neat, I'll look into those. > Wait a second. You mean socketed flash chips won't be present on > future mainboards? Are there no socketed SPI chips or will the > ROM storage itself be integrated into the south bridge? SPI is becoming a darling boot source, it is only 2 wires, and the ROMs are physically much smaller, but are similar densities to PLCCs. SPIs right now are mostly SO-8s, and socketing SO-8s is an expensive thing to do (much more expensive than a PLCC socket). The SPI ROMs themselves, however, are cheaper than their LPC/FWH PLCC counterparts. That is what makes me think SPI will take over soon. Maybe that is wrong, and PLCCs will last 5 more years, who knows. (NAND may also be a near term option on some southbridges) -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
