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NEC to Introduce Monitors With Raspi Socket

posted by janrinok on Friday October 14 2016, @07:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-in-one dept.

Rich writes:

NEC Display Solutions Europe has announced a collaboration with the Raspberry Pi foundation that will put Raspis into slots in monitors: https://www.nec-display-solutions.com/p/hq/en/news/dp/Products/Shared/News/2016/PressReleases/Company/RaspberryPi/RaspberryPi.xhtml

The socket in the monitor looks a lot like it will hold the Raspi Compute Module, while the given specifications mention a quad 1.2 GHz CPU. So it is likely that a Compute Module with the BCM2837 SoC from the Raspi 3 will ship by the announced date in January 2017. The press release particularly points out the usefulness in IoT-related display and signage areas, but overall, the package should also be a rather decent all-in-one PC that could be used in many other situations that do not require very high performance.

NEC also announced, aside from the standard Raspi, some custom hardware to fit into these CPU sockets that "meets the needs of the display industry", but was not yet specific on technical details here.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @08:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @08:11PM (#414433)

    > As a side note: I didn't realize NEC was even still around.

    Come on, man. That is a statement about you, not NEC.
    They had 28 billion dollars of gross revenue in 2013. They are more than "still around."

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday October 14 2016, @08:25PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Friday October 14 2016, @08:25PM (#414439)

    Yeah, I'll own that. My only defense is that I don't really work with industrial electronics. Other than tinkering with silly shit on the side, I'm just a code monkey. I guess they do still have a consumer product line. I guess I just kinda got my head in the sand though.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @01:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @01:15AM (#414488)
      I go to Japan frequently and NEC's consumer gear is everywhere. In Japan they have the largest share of personal computers, and they have a line of mobile phones and Android smartphones that I don't believe they market elsewhere. Their consumer electronics divisions seem more geared towards the domestic Japanese market than international these days.