"Could this be the first effort in what will become a family of universal chips"
Patience. If I don't miss my guess, this chip is a fully integrated Geode. It might be a great vehicle for their rumored 802.11g chipset, I guess an upgraded 1770 chipset. And MirrorBit, don't forget MirrorBit. Hard to say what the performance would be, Geode got to about 300 MHz on what was probably a 0.25 micron process. Maybe even 0.35. Updating it to 0.13 micron and optimizing for power consumption they should be able to get it over 500 MHz, which might be enough. If they concentrate on keeping I/O to a minimum, say integrating their 1770 chipset (all but the rf portion), 100 baseT ethernet, a couple of USB host controllers, maybe a SATA controller and the memory interfaces (no PCI, PCI Express or AGP), they could minimize power consumption, allow for some expansion and have a very small board. It should be able to decompress video streamed from the server, although 802.11g wouldn't be able to support more than a couple of streams without have the server being able to work multiple channels...
But it could be done.
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