NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Recouping dev costs most likely. The CRIO was more or less an off the shelf part with a new screen print. This seems to be a custom built solution for some very specific needs with a small market.

I agree with the development costs. They are producing a minimum of 6000 units if I remember the RFP correctly.

Have you seen the new cRIO they just released this week (cRIO-9068)? It's also an ARM Cortex A9 with a RT Linux. It should be pretty interesting to see how that is applied.