Companies join to offer extended support for long-serving x86 processors

Congatec and AMD have joined together to offer extended life cycle support for one of the world's longest-serving x86 processors. This has resulted in the AMD Geode processor boards from the company having planned availability until the end of 2021. "With the collaboration between congatec and AMD to support the AMD Geode processor line on ETX and XTX modules at least until end of life in 2021, our Computer-on-Module customers benefit from massive life cycle and return on investment improvements for their AMD Geode based product lines," explains Martin Danzer, Director Product Management at congatec. "Supply until 2021 means 16 years long-term availability for the Geode LX, which was introduced by AMD in 2005. This is unique to the embedded x86 processor markets, where processors, in general, are available for seven years and underlines our commitment to being a trusted partner for the entire product life cycle." "AMD has been serving the embedded market for over 20 years, and from this experience, we know that one of the most important things to customers is the longevity of the supply chain channel," says Stephen Turnbull, Director of Business Development, at AMD. "We are very proud that our Geode embedded product line is so successful that we can now extend the support to until at least 2021, making it one of the longest continuously available x86 embedded products on the market."