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San Mateo, Calif. - The Super I/O chip has long been a fixture on PC motherboards. But in this age of Ethernets and USBs, a chip that combines a parallel printer port and RS-232/485 serial ports, keyboard/mouse interface and floppy controller may seem a little prosaic.
Industrial embedded X86 systems, however, are still rich in serial I/O connections, said Rob Stein, vice president of marketing at Standard Microsystems Corp. (Hauppauge, N.Y.). And that creates a need for Super I/O controllers-lots of them. Some...