SEGA never officially announced this new Hardware, but the logo popped up in the upcoming Guilty Gear official site! (i think by mistake)
http://www.guiltygearx.com/the first game released for the original RingEdge was BORDER BREAK in 2009 as some of you already know
the board also supported Shining Force Cross, Project DIVA Arcade, Let's GO Island, Sengoku Taisen and more
the specs were:
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 (1.8 GHz)
RAM: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM (PC-6400)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800GS with 384 MB GDDR3 SDRAM (Shader Model 4.0)
Output: 2 DVI ports
Storage: 32GB SSD
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T)
OS: Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Other: 3 USB ports, 5.1 channel HD Audio, Sega ALL.NET online support[37]
a closer look to the previous hardware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423FSWYM-gM&feature=relatedso it turns out that they were planning for a hardware series tagged as RingEdge (top specs) and RingWide (lower specs)
is this their next-gen Arcade Board?