Kontron Embedded Motherboards Use Intel Core2 Quad Processor

By DE Editors

At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF; Taipei, Taiwan) Kontron (Eching, Germany) announced its latest-generation embedded motherboards that offer the 45nm Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9400 and the Intel Q45 Express chipset on the ATX and Flex-ATX form factors with seven-year-long lifecycle support.

The new Kontron embedded motherboards push the performance of compute-intensive applications such as medical, test and measurement,  industrial vision, control systems and security and video surveillance systems while enabling cooler and quieter system designs, states the release.

The new Kontron embedded ATX and Flex-ATX motherboards feature the Intel processors up to the 45nm Intel Core2 Quad processor Q9400 with 2.66GHz, 6MB L2 cache and a FSB of up to 1,333MHz. They are also equipped with the Intel 82Q45 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub and Intel I/O Controller Hub 10 (Intel ICH10DO) for seven-year long lifecycle support for embedded systems. Furthermore, the Kontron KTQ45/ATXE and Kontron KTQ45/FLEX motherboards support the latest Intel Active Management Technology 5.0 (Intel AMT 5.0) and an integrated Intel Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2).

In addition, the latest integrated data protection engine ensures fast and secure hardware encryption of all transferred data without affecting system performance.

The Kontron KTQ45/ATXE and Kontron KTQ45/FLEX embedded motherboards support up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM to further boost the performance of data processing intensive applications. Graphic intensive applications in particular benefit from integrated graphics support for DVI, HDMI, SDVO, and DisplayPort via the fast PCI Express x16. Hardware based video signal decoding routines for H.264 HD DVD/Blue-ray decoding are integrated into the northbridge.

The new Kontron embedded motherboards support Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded and Linux and are available now. For more information about ATX motherboards and Flex-ATX motherboards, please visit Kontron.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.