Quite a strange press release. So NI has “agreed” to sell COTS, catalog items to a company.
In the past, I can attest to the fact that they sold me two PXI chassis, an embedded processor, and some modules for same, plus fiber optic links.
So?
I would imagine there is more than just off-the-shelf hardware involved here. As per my post above the E-cat will require some dedicated software. Although it doesn’t say it in the story, I wouldn’t be surprised if NI was handling the software as part of the overall instrumentation.
It is weird. This wouldn't be news for anyone but Rossi, who even Kevmo says sucks at giving crappy demos.