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Gigabyte Creates VIA-Powered Mini-ITX Motherboard

VIA may not hold a very big share of the CPU and chipset market, but the fields it does serve are better for it, enough so that Gigabyte decided to try out the NANO processor and its accompanying chipset. There was a time, rather long ago, when VIA motherboards and processors were actually easy to encounter in PCs ...

23 January 2012
14:31 GMT

VIA x86 Motherboards Get Android Support

Android is spreading its influence to parts of the worldwide IT market other than the mobile segment, with VIA, in this case, helping it along. The Android operating systems is one of the most widely used software platforms in the world. It is very often encountered on smartphones and has also become the OS of cho...

15 December 2011
15:51 GMT

Get Your Latest AMD Embedded GPU and Chipset Drivers

It's time to announce the release of the newest embedded graphics driver for AMD's GPUs, now at version 8.92. These drivers will support Windows Vista and 7, but XP hasn't been left aside, despite some voices which claimed the imminent abandon of said operating system for the future versions.Still, the...

9 December 2011
03:20 GMT

Check Out Stealth Computer's LPC-125LPFM Mini PC

We mentioned, yesterday (November 2, 2011), that Stealth Computer had lived up to its name again, but for those who missed it, the company launched the LPC-125LPFM. Measuring 117mm x 155mm x 52mm (4.6 x 6.1 x 2.0 inches), the small thing has a 1.8 GHz CPU, 2 GB or 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, Mini-PCIe slot, Gigabit LAN, thr...

3 November 2011
11:25 GMT

Embedded AMD Radeon E6460 Supports Multiple Displays

Advanced Micro Devices makes a point of having the more versatile multi-display technology, shown in how it implemented something of the sort in the latest embedded, entry-level GPU. While low-end graphics processing units, like those used in HTPCs and the embedded market, aren't expected to have powerful sp...

26 September 2011
03:14 GMT

Intelligent Systems Gain Much Ground by 2015

Intelligent systems are starting to account for an increasingly large part of the total electronic system units, and IDC believes that the embedded market has much to do with this. Intelligent system is a moniker that has come to be applied to any system that has powerful processors, connectivity and an advanced ...

12 September 2011
07:32 GMT

SATA-IO Completes New Embedded SSD Standard

Being the consortium of companies responsible with making sure the SATA interface keeps up with the times, SATA-IO issued a press release in which it reveals that it has finished the latest embedded SSD specification.Embedded NAND Flash is the sort of memory that is found in such mobile computing platforms as ultrat...

10 August 2011
04:05 GMT

Intel Invests In New Research Centers

While working on its new CPUs and marketing existing ones, Intel seems to be enjoying something of a respite, one that it, apparently, decided to fill with new research projects and investments.There are many things that large companies like Intel occupy themselves with, and this extends to more than just making the...

4 August 2011
07:52 GMT

AMD Fusion Chip Gets ‘Best in Show’ Award

AMD just issued a press release in which it reveals that a certain accelerated processing unit has been given an award during the Embedded Systems Conference, for its functionality and innovative elements. Even though Intel still has a clear lead in terms of how many laptops and desktops use its chips, Advanced M...

11 May 2011
02:39 GMT

Super Micro Embedded Server Building Blocks Now Official

When making a server, there are several ways to go about things, and Super Micro decided to offer one for those system builders that like to use the so-called building block procedure.Servers are an indispensable part of today's networks and Internet infrastructure, so it stands to reason that quite a few compa...

2 May 2011
11:09 GMT

VIA Announces Nano X2 E Low-Power Dual-Core Processor Series

VIA has just announced that it plans to unveil its new family of low power dual-core Nano X2 processors at the 2011 Embedded System Conference (ESC) that has just opened its gates at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The VIA Nano X2 E chips have two out-of-order x86 processing cores that are b...

2 May 2011
08:51 GMT

Kingston Prepares for Strong Embedded NAND Flash Demand

It appears that the embedded market is seeing some serious movement lately, as various companies are either unveiling new devices or, in the case of Kingston, preparing for increases in product demand.The embedded market may not get as much attention from the media as the consumer front does, but it is, nonetheless,...

2 May 2011
05:48 GMT

Intel Prepares Embedded Celeron B810E and 847E Sandy Bridge CPUs for Q3 Launch

Intel is preparing to expand its lineup of Sandy Bridge-based Celeron processors with the addition of two new models that are targeting the embedded market and are expected to become available in the third quarter of this year. These new processors are destined to replace the Arrandale-based standard voltage P4500...

2 May 2011
04:22 GMT

AMD Presents Strong Radeon E6760 for Embedded Systems

AMD may have been at the center of more or less outlandish rumors lately, but this doesn't seem to have stopped it from going ahead with its product releases, as made clear by this newest development.The thing about the embedded graphics market is that it doesn't really have many GPUs (graphics processing ...

2 May 2011
02:35 GMT

GE Intros Embedded HPEC Board Powered by Intel Sandy Bridge Quad-Core CPUs

GE Intelligent Platforms just announced that Intel's second-generation Core processors have found their way in one of the company's most advanced multiprocessor platforms, the DSP280 rugged dual socket 6U VPX board that is designed to be used in high performance embedded computing solutions. These are us...

30 March 2011
10:10 GMT

Intel Debuts Five New Embedded Sandy Bridge CPUs

Nearly two months after the official launch of the Sandy Bridge architecture, Intel keeps updating its processor range with new models, the company just introducing five new embedded CPUs, two of them featuring an energy efficient design. Making our way up in Intel's list, the first processor we encounter is ...

25 February 2011
05:37 GMT

Mystery MSI Mini-ITX Board Makes Appearance

Along its consumer-oriented products, MSI also designs and manufactures a wide selection of industrial and embedded motherboards, and recently, what appears to be such a board made its appearance on the web. The mainboard's picture was uncovered by the VR-Zone website, and, unfortunately, isn't accompani...

24 February 2011
09:08 GMT

VIA Launches New Series of Rugged LED Backlit Displays for Embedded Applications

VIA just announced that it has expanded its embedded product line to feature a new series of VIA VID industrial-class touchscreen displays designed for a range of modern interactive kiosk, POI and POS systems. The new series is available in both ruggedized and open-frame configurations and spans in size from 7-inch t...

22 February 2011
08:23 GMT

Intel Embedded Core i3-2310E Sandy Bridge CPU Expected to Arrive in Q1 2011

Together with desktop and mobile Sandy Bridge processors, Intel also launched a series of embedded second generation Core CPU models, other such solutions being expected to make their debut in the first quarter of 2011, including the just detailed Core i3 2310E. The yet to be released processor closely resembles t...

31 January 2011
07:11 GMT

New Embedded System Uses Intel's Dual-Core Atom D525 CPU

Even though the Pine Trail series of Intel processors was designed for netbooks and nettops, they occasionally land inside other sort of products, like a certain embedded system developed by IEI Technology.Embedded systems are very compact systems with mostly basic computing capabilities that are aimed at industrial...

21 December 2010
07:07 GMT

VIA Pushes New Embedded pico-ITX Motherboard

VIA may not be an especially strong presence on the overall CPU market, but it does have its stake in the embedded market, where it has now unleashed a new small form factor platform.Since Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have practically split the consumer CPU market between themselves, VIA is constantly consolidat...

15 December 2010
05:23 GMT

MSI Announces Fanless Mainboard with Atom-based Processor

Although Intel has just released the specially designed Atom E600C processor for embedded duty, there are still users out there that are far more interested in building small form factor systems based on regular Atom chips, MSI just releasing a 3.5-inch motherboard that come paired with a Intel Atom N270 process...

30 November 2010
08:45 GMT

New Stealth PC Is Small Enough to Be Held in One's Hand

It seems that Stealth PC thought it was time to offer a new small form factor system, so it came up with one that strives to cram all the necessary hardware inside an enclosure small enough to almost fit in the palm of one's hand.The new ruggged SFF computer that the company put together is known as LPC-100M an...

2 November 2010
05:10 GMT

Habey Embedded Compact System Features an Intel Atom CPU

Deciding to leave the consumer market alone for now, Habey went ahead and developed a system suited for industrial application, namely the embedded system dubbed Habey WIT-1800.While desktops and notebooks have a clear target end-user base, embedded systems are more task-oriented.Mostly, they end up used, either alo...

1 November 2010
07:51 GMT

MSI Also Brings Out Mainboard for Embedded Systems

Though its lines of gaming-oriented and mainstream products are what make it famous, Micro-Star International has shifted its focus towards the industrial market for today, now releasing a pair of motherboards intended for the embedded market.MSI's Pine Trail-based platform for Virtual Private Networks, NAS dev...

16 September 2010
05:24 GMT

New VIA Mini-ITX Board, EPIA-M850, Debuts

Though it won't be bringing out quad-core processors until late next year, VIA is still quite active in its chosen market segments, and its most recent product launch consists of the EPIA-M850, a mini-ITX motherboard meant to be used in embedded multimedia devices, among other things.Recently, rumors arose sayi...

7 September 2010
06:54 GMT

MSI WindBOX III Fanless Slim System Released

While it has been quite active on the consumer PC and hardware front lately, MSI has now stepped up to offer something a bit different, namely the WindBOX III, a new addition to its WindBOX line and a slim form factor system that seeks to bring embedded applications the benefit of passive cooling and, thus, lack of ...

1 September 2010
03:30 GMT

STMicroelectronics Unveils Dual-Core ARM Cortex SPEAr1310

Technology is ever advancing and, while the changes are most noticeable on the consumer front, where hardware makers always come out in full force with their announcements and technologies, things are progressing just as steadily on other levels as well, as is made obvious by STMicroelectronics, which has just shown...

12 August 2010
06:14 GMT

VIA Unveils COM Express Module Based on Nano E

VIA technologies released the Nano E Series of high-performance processors not so long ago and, now, the company has announced what it calls the world's first COM Express type product to use this chip. The product in question is called VIA COME8X80 and seeks to enable a higher performance and longevity than oth...

5 August 2010
11:19 GMT

VIA Presents AMOS-5000 Series Embedded PC Kits

While some companies in the IT industry made names for themselves by focusing on a certain product portfolio, some decided they would address a wider range of end-users and, thus, deal in a much bigger number of products. VIA is one of the players that makes a point of being an all-rounder, and its latest embedded P...

22 July 2010
06:42 GMT

VIA Unveils Mini-ITX Motherboard for Embedded Systems

VIA may not be nearly as prominent on the consumer market as Intel or Advanced Micro Devices but, if anything, the kind of products it does deal in are definitely worthy of note. In fact, the company has just come out and unveiled its latest Mini-ITX motherboard. Dubbed VIA EPIA-M840, this platform is meant for embe...

29 June 2010
07:57 GMT

Embed Any Tweet with Blackbrid Pie from Twitter

Twitter has launched its embeddable tweet feature that lets you incorporate individual tweets on your site or blog in all their glory. Actually, its creator doesn’t want you to call it a feature, and for good reason, it’s not some official tool coming from Twitter, it’s a relatively simple script cr...

5 May 2010
04:01 GMT

AMD Supplies Embedded Market with Two Complete Platforms

Even though AMD is lagging behind Intel in terms of consumer and mobile PC processors, the company seems to, at least, be doing well on the embedded market, now that it has completed its latest platform family. Taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the Embedded Systems Conference, the Sunnyvale, California-...

26 April 2010
03:00 GMT

Samples of VIA's Nano E CPUs Reach Customers

Amidst all the talk about six-core CPUs from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, end-users may have forgotten that a third supplier of chips, namely VIA, is still very much alive and kicking, steadily increasing its hardware collection, not the least part of which is the Nano Series of processors. In fact, the company ...

22 April 2010
09:46 GMT

DFI Launches CP100-NRM Mini-ITX Industrial Motherboard

DFI has been making industrial motherboards for a while now and its latest small form-factor model was launched just this week. Coming in the mini-ITX form factor, the CP100-NRM is based on the Intel QM57 chipset and aims to bring as high a performance level as possible to embedded applications. As such, the board ha...

26 March 2010
11:50 GMT

VIA's Fanless Embedded Box System ART-3000 Debuts

It seems that not all news comes from CeBIT today. While companies are getting out of their way surprising consumers with the wide variety of motherboards, graphics cards, memory devices and all other types of hardware, other companies, such as VIA, are going about their business and steadily yielding new products fo...

2 March 2010
09:13 GMT

From Windows 7 RTM to Codenamed Motegi

As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows 7 did in no way stop with the October 22nd official client launch, which followed the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 (formerly codenamed Windows 7 Server). In fact, the Redmond company still has to deliver operating systems based on the Windows 7 code, and is wasting littl...

10 December 2009
11:38 GMT

AIS Combines Embedded Platforms and Embedded Windows OS into Industrial Solutions

With Embedded Computing becoming a practically indispensable part of human life, American Industrial Systems Inc. put together a variety of pre-engineered embedded computing solutions aimed at fields such as medicine, the military, the marine, HVAC control (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning), Control Automatio...

30 November 2009
05:18 GMT

Win $15,000 Cash by Building with Windows Embedded CE

Microsoft is offering developers a chance to win no less than $15,000 in cash via a new contest with the Windows Embedded CE operating system at the core. The Redmond company is currently accepting participants in the embeddedSPARK 2010 Challenge, that requires developers to put together an embedded project for a cha...

20 November 2009
05:58 GMT

MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition Brings Support for 4G and LTE Networks

MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition is an embedded development platform that allows telephone operators to implement systems that feature high reliability, availability and serviceability. The latest release of this platform builds a whole range of new features on top of a Linux Standard Base compliant system powe...

20 October 2009
08:01 GMT

New Firefox 3.5 Embedded Coming to Windows CE

The Internet Explorer – Firefox face-off is about to extend to new territories. Just a week passed since Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 to web, on June 30, 2009, but plans are already in motion to deliver yet another flavor of the latest version of the open-source browser. Mozilla is looking to expand support for...

7 July 2009
11:31 GMT

Intel Lays Out Plans to Acquire Wind River Systems for US$884 Million

Continuing to plan for the road ahead, Santa Clara, California-based Intel has just announced that it has entered the final stage of negotiation with Wind River Systems, which will be acquired by the world's leading chip maker for approximately US$884 Million. Wind River Systems is a company that specializes in ...

5 June 2009
02:52 GMT

Apple Plans to Grow Number of Embedded Devices

Apple's Job Opportunities section lists an opening for a Mac OS X SW Dev Manager, Network Authentication and Security. The team to be led is responsible for developing software for embedded devices (such as the iPhone), among others. According to the job summary, the company is already working on a “growin...

28 December 2008
13:41 GMT

Windows Server Evaluation Editions Free Downloads Bonanza

Microsoft is offering a veritable bonanza of Windows Server evaluation editions free downloads. Packaged under the label Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation Software, a number of no less than ten products are offered at no charge for evaluation purposes only. Testers will have access to a variety of operating...

28 July 2008
10:15 GMT

Microsoft Got Windows on ASUS Eee PC, but not XP SP3 or Vista SP1

Microsoft managed to get the Windows operating system on the ASUS Eee PC, but neither Windows XP Service Pack 3 nor Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Instead, Parag Garg, Program Manager in the Embedded Windows team, experimented with Windows XP Embedded and the Eee PC. The Eee PC comes with a 900MHz Intel Celeron Proces...

7 April 2008
07:28 GMT

The VIA vmpc vm7700, Converting a Monitor Into a PC

VIA Technologies just announced the launch of a new and innovative way of turning a standard LCD computer monitor into a fully fledged desktop computing system that will be well suited for ''signage, kiosk and other intelligent display applications, providing a radically superior space management, cost effe...

8 October 2007
07:00 GMT

Axiomtek Intros Another Small Form Factor Mainboard

Axiomtek just announced the launch of a new EPIC form factor computer mainboard that is well suited for manufacturing computing systems that have to be small and operate with a light energy footprint. The single board computer, SBC for short, from Axiomtek is designed to be able to house mobile Intel central processi...

8 October 2007
02:56 GMT

Freescale ColdFire Processors Announced

Freescale Semiconductor just announced the official launch of a new generation of processing units that are now available under the commercial designation of MCF544x and they are aimed at providing users with a low power but high performance solution for building embedded systems that are running the Linux operating ...

1 October 2007
12:10 GMT

The Small Form Factor Makes Waves

It looks like computer systems packed away in a small form factor are increasingly popular these days as the technical advances allows them to deliver quite a computational punch even in their miniaturized state. Apart from their small size and equally small energy footprint, this new generation of computers is usual...

21 September 2007
09:12 GMT

Tiny Computers to Get a New Standard

Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p...

20 September 2007
06:25 GMT


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