GE Fanuc Launches New VME PowerPC®-Based 
Single Board Computer
Technology delivers high value and performance, increases system availability

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - September 16, 2003 -   GE Fanuc Automation Americas, Inc., an affiliate of GE Industrial Systems, today announced the VMIVME-7050 VME PowerPC®-based single board computer (SBC). Highly integrated and versatile, this new single-slot SBC provides increased performance at an energy-efficient level for demanding embedded computing requirements. 

Offering an IBM® 750FX/GX PowerPC processor with 512 KB on-chip L2 cache and processor speeds up to 1.0 GHz, the VMIVME-7050 delivers extremely high performance. The VMIVME-7050 features two PCI-X capable PMC sites, serial ports (up to 10 Mb/s per channel), supports dual Gigabit Ethernet LANs, and provides up to 64 MB of Flash, and up to 1 GB Compact Flash. On-board memory is provided by up to 2 GB of DDR SDRAM with ECC running at 133 MHz, PC2100 without losing any PMC expansion capabilities. The powerful IBM Processor is mated with one of the industry's most powerful system controllers (Marvell Discovery II), yielding an impressive SBC design. The bandwidth through the system controller is maximized by using 2 MB of SRAM as a revolutionary "cross-bar fabric switch" to allow "any-to-any" connectivity of up to 100 Gbps of aggregate throughput, with non-blocking concurrent connections among all of the peripheral channels at full bus speeds. The VMIVME-7050 supports both VxWorks®, LynxOS® and Linux®. 

GE Fanuc's VMIVME-7050 is available for order and scheduled delivery.

About GE Fanuc Automation
GE Fanuc Automation Americas, Inc., is a leading global supplier of automation solutions and is a joint venture between GE and FANUC LTD of Japan. GE Fanuc products and services include collaborative production management, HMI/SCADA and plant intelligence software; nano to high-end controllers; embedded systems; a wide range of CNCs; motion control; operator interfaces; industrial computers; lasers and a wide range of integration and customer support services. Headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., GE Fanuc is part of GE Industrial Systems. For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com. 

About GE Industrial Systems
GE Industrial Systems, a division of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), spans the globe as an industry leader in integrated industrial, electrical and security equipment, systems and services. The business brings to customers the latest technologies that are used to distribute, protect and control energy and equipment, and to provide premise management. GE provides innovative product and service solutions for commercial, industrial, residential and utility customers. For more information visit the website at: www.geindustrial.com.

For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com/embedded or contact: GE Fanuc Automation, 1672 Donlon Street, Ventura, CA 93003, Phone: (805) 650 2111, Fax: (805) 650-2110, e-mail: embedded@gefanuc.com.

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