Posted to News on 28th Feb 2007, 12:03
Kontron's new embedded computers with Intel Core 2 Duo
Timed to launch at the same time as the Intel Embedded Roadmap, Kontron introduced its latest wave of technology for Intel Core 2 Duo processors. With an impressive nine different embedded platforms available between now and the end of the first quarter of 2007, Kontron will offer the latest board technology across a variety of form factors with Intel's new multi-core architecture.
The new Intel Core 2 Duo micro-architecture is designed to deliver increased performance and better performance-per-watt, thus increasing overall energy efficiency and making it one of the most important embedded processors for 2007. The product portfolio ranges from computer-on-modules ETX 3.0 and ETXexpress/COM Express, four embedded motherboards including Mini-ITX, Flex-ATX and ATX in two versions, up to SBCs for PICMG 1.3, 3U CompactPCI, 6U CompactPCI and, last of all, AdvancedMC. Kontron claims to be the world's only vendor of embedded computer technology with such a complete product range of all relevant embedded form factors, so large OEMs that require different form factors for different applications within their company can get them all from a single vendor - thereby reducing their overall cost and increasing their current and future flexibility significantly.
The Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7x00 is one of the latest members of Intel's 'performance' product line of multi-core processors based on the new Intel Core micro-architecture. Users that are already using or plan to use existing platforms from Kontron based on the Intel Core Duo processor T2400/T2500 will have a seamless performance boost by moving to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400, which offers 4MB, twice as much L2 cache - which can be dynamically assigned to each of the cores - as well as a 64-bit architecture.
Power consumption for the new processors is only slightly higher than the Intel Core Duo processors due to new features such as 'enhanced speedstep' and 'dynamic bus parking'. Customers will also have available to them system-enhancing technologies in these new processor/chipset platforms such as Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Advanced Management Technology (Intel AMT). The Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400, with a thermal design power of 34W, is excellent for communications and embedded designs requiring a low thermal envelope.
