Keep in mind, Intel's trying to keep Atom from competing with CULV, and keep Atom down in the MID/UMPC space they originally intended for it, and for third world countries that don't care about performance, as long as it's a computer.

@Chefgon No, they're probably being offered to hobbyists, in this case, but they're a development platform. Buy one, develop your software for the chip while you design some hardware, and then your software will be ready to go when you get your real hardware back from China.

The SODIMM form factor is so that you can use the same baseboard (which has all the I/O ports) for multiple generations (or even architectures, IIRC) of CPU.

@kevin949 In this case, it's embedded development. Basically, stuff where you need a fast (fast is subjective) CPU in a sealed box. Set-top boxes, navigation units, BR players, and the like.

Think Colorado-size, F150 capabilities.

That layout is common in the markets where this truck is intended towards - short bed, quad cab, but high load capacity and towing capacity.

What the hell, more free stuff.

@(Unverified) Replying to myself.

http://www.stantum.com/en/offer/technology-ip

Looks like I was wrong, they basically divide the panel up into a row/column-addressed resistive display. It does mean that there's a hard upper limit on precision, but they're saying that they're pixel-precise, so they're obviously able to make the resistive "cells" small enough to not matter.

@tylersmyler I don't know if it can be made transparent, but touchpads are an example of capacitive pressure-sensitive (and nowadays, even multitouch) devices.

@mocax If you would read, you would see that they have the technology down to 2.5" - well into smartphone territory.

@(Unverified) Actually, capacitive touch is capable of detecting pressure - note that a touchpad is an early form of a capacitive touch panel. However, it's not been implemented in current displays.

But, I'm wondering if this is a combination of resistive and capacitive technologies. I never saw more than one non-conductive implement used at a time, and it could only detect one pressure level, not one for every multitouch finger.

Here's how I could see it working... have a resistive sensor on top of the capacitive sensor. Then, it can detect as many finger inputs as their capacitive sensor can handle, and that also explains their resistive sensor not needing calibration - fingers automatically calibrate it to the capsensor. Now, when you're pushing multiple points on a resistive display, you end up getting an average of those points... so, all you have to do is add in the skew from what's known on the capsensor, and you can detect one non-conductive object in addition to all of your conductive objects.

I've suggested that approach before, actually, somewhere...