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Advantech Pentium M Solutions Drive Innovation

An Advantech (UK) product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team May 31, 2004

Advantech's partnership with Intel continues to strengthen, led by a stream of powerful Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M solutions aimed at the embedded market.

Advantech's partnership with Intel continues to strengthen, led by a stream of powerful Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M solutions aimed at the embedded market.

Intel Pentium M's new micro architecture built on 90-nanometer process technology offers an optimal combination of high performance and low-power that is ideal for applications such as service blades, transaction terminals, high performance multimedia kiosks and industrial controllers.

The superior performance/watt, robust I/O support, software compatibility with previous generation Intel Architecture processors and Intel's dedicated long product life cycle support, make Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M the preferred choice of system integrators.

Advantech solutions range from ULV/fanless full and half-size SBCs and CompactPCI boards with fast instruction execution, to Advantech's newest System On Module (SOM) solutions for the ultimate combination of multimedia and graphics/processing power and customized development.

Application Matched Intel Pentium M Solutions.

Advantech has multiple solutions that offer customers the advantages of an Intel Pentium M solution that match their application needs.

For high-end graphics and multimedia intensive solutions, the SOM-5580 Series use the high performance Pentium M (formerly codenamed Dothan) and Intel 855GME chipset on a dedicated carrier board design.

Targeting medical and gaming applications where display performance and processing power is key, this System On Module solution allows developers to use a dedicated graphics chip on the carrier board via AGP bus.

This feature gives developers more flexibility and upgrade capability for graphics and computing power, plus the ability to decrease overall project development time.

The SOM-5580 is the easiest and fastest way to apply Pentium M power utilizing the Intel 855GME onchip graphics engine or your own ATI Radeon or Nvidia GeForce or other graphics chip to your embedded solution.

For communications, the Pentium M delivers high reliability, high performance and low heat dissipation along with advanced power management features like Enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology.

The new MIC-3369 CompactPCI server blade, optimized for the Pentium M and Intel E7501 chipset, delivers 400MHz bus speed with the Intel NetBurst micro architecture.

Its innovative wider data path and memory refresh technology optimize DDR SDRAM performance.

It is an ideal platform for emerging applications such as switch-fabric blade servers, mission critical and computing intensive applications like (3G) wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and converged data and voice communication applications.

For more cost effective embedded solutions without compromised performance, the Intel Celeron M ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor has become the platform of choice for many application developers.

Based on.13æ process technology, the processor is well proven in the mobile and value PC markets, featuring fanless operation up to certain CPU speeds.

The Celeron M supports advanced power management which includes a Deep Sleep state that minimizes power consumption in applications during periods of inactivity; perfect for many mobile and other embedded applications like information kiosks and POS systems that require an always ready, standby presence.

Advantech's released or soon to be released 5.25" PCM-9581 SBC, full size PCA-6189 SBC, SOM-4481 and AIMB-750 industrial motherboard all use the Celeron M or Pentium M processor, providing Advantech customers more choice for their application needs.

The Future of Pentium M at Advantech.

Advantech has always stressed the importance of relationships with vendors like Intel and the movement of cutting edge technology to our customers.

Applying this technology in ways that help our customers is key.

Advantech believes the continued movement of modularized computing like our System On Module solutions will continue to gain momentum in the embedded market.

Along these same lines, we feel the interoperability of PCI Express Architecture will gain a wider acceptance in embedded computing in the near future.

The SOM-5580 Pentium M solution will be the cornerstone of many successful projects.

The flexibility and lower total cost of ownership of SOM solutions combined with increased development support (OS, BIOS, Drivers) is a way Advantech continues to add value to our customers.

Our DTOS (Design to Order Service) is providing customized embedded technology and fast prototyping that more closely fits developers' application needs.

For more information, please visit our website: www.advantech-uk.com/ or contact an Advantech sales representative.

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