If you work with embedded hardware, this isn't exactly strange or weird.
Even before the Raspberry Pi compute module was a thing, there were already many vendors around (e.g. Kontron, Phytec, Toradex, ...) who sell SO-DIMM form factor modules with the entire system on it and a breakout board to plug it in to. AFAIK the usual deal is that you get the design files for the breakout board, customize it for your application and simply plug in the vendor sourced module (semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/; given that the RPI compute module is a thing for some years now I considered this something that "people know by now").
To be honest, I've never seen one with an x86 SoC on it tough, instead of something ARM based. I would consider that strange or weird, but having bought a BifferBoard[1] way back when, I don't find it that surprising that x86 hardware of that size exists.
Even before the Raspberry Pi compute module was a thing, there were already many vendors around (e.g. Kontron, Phytec, Toradex, ...) who sell SO-DIMM form factor modules with the entire system on it and a breakout board to plug it in to. AFAIK the usual deal is that you get the design files for the breakout board, customize it for your application and simply plug in the vendor sourced module (semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/; given that the RPI compute module is a thing for some years now I considered this something that "people know by now").
To be honest, I've never seen one with an x86 SoC on it tough, instead of something ARM based. I would consider that strange or weird, but having bought a BifferBoard[1] way back when, I don't find it that surprising that x86 hardware of that size exists.
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/