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ATCA Newsletter for December 2009 - January 2010
Features:
- RapidIO Trade Association Defines Gen 3 Specification Update
- Thermal Classes Help AdvancedTCA Developers Achieve Interoperability
- SCOPE Alliance Announces Middleware Portability Project and Releases CPU Benchmarking Recommendations
- OpenSAF News
- There’s No Upside to Downtime
- AXIe Technical Update
- AdvancedTCA Poised to Penetrate LTE
- Time Waits for No Man - and Surely Not in Networks
- AdvancedTCA’s Big Femtocell Opportunity
- Overcoming 10GBASE-T Test and Measurement Hurdles – Bring on the Streaming Video
- Embedded Instrumentation Delivers Test/Validation Coverage on Intel Xeon 5500 Boards
- MicroTCA User Interview with Alok Shah of Vanu
AdvancedTCA Market Is Surprisingly Resilient in the Downturn
Despite initial delays and disappointingly slow development, the AdvancedTCA market is showing surprising resilience in the current economic downturn. VDC’s latest data indicate that the market will be about the same in 2009 as in 2008 within a few percentage points. Although this is obviously below recent high double digit growth rates, it is much better than other embedded computing segments and technology markets are faring. For example, both the industrial embedded computing market and the overall communications equipment market are likely to contract by double digits. Read more…
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