Kontron Launches COM Express Basic COMe-bIP with 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors

The manufacturer of open modular solutions for the telecommunications market, Kontron, has released fourteen versions of Computer-on-Modules COM Express with third-generation Intel Core processors, that offer maximum flexibility in state-of-the-art high-end embedded digital signage applications with up to three independent digital displays.

Kontron has included support for the new third-generation Intel Core processors in fourteen versions COM Express basic Computer-on-Module. The new Kontron COM Express basic COMe-bIP#, that are presented in Type 2 and Type 6 with different processors, provide long-term availability, An unprecedented level of graphics performance and processing, Support for three independent displays, USB 3.0 and 'fast' PCI-Express Gen 3.0. These innovative modules, based on Intel QM77 chipset, support seven third-generation Intel Core processors with up to 2.3 Ghz (Intel Core i7 3615QE quad-core).

Design engineers for high-end intelligent embedded computing systems, such as those found in medical and digital signage solutions, face the challenge of properly combining performance, Watts and Cost. Now, New third-generation modules deliver the scalability demanded in your current and future applications.

Environments with "thermal restrictions", as health, Digital signage, infotainment, Points of sale (POS) and "unmanned" aerospace and military applications, They can also achieve an increase in performance per watt of up to forty percent. This improvement in efficiency is the result of the innovative 3-D Tri-Gate manufacturing process of 22 nm.

Kontron modules bring up to twenty percent more computing power and HD graphics with a higher number of graphics execution units.

The Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX) and the SSE float point instruction set for signal processing, as well as OpenCL 1.1, provide developers with the ideal platform to increase computing performance in, for example, Health and Advocacy. Vision systems benefit from the USB interface 3.0 supported (with ten times the performance of USB 2.0), while the latest PCI Express technology helps provide wireless connectivity through 3G add-on modems / 4G and other communications devices.

The Kontron COM Express basic COMe-bIP# range supports a wide variety of operating systems, as Linux, VxWorks and Windows (including Windows 8).