Embedded electronics specialist FORTEC Built-in has introduced the launch of a 3.5″ almost-single-board laptop it says can stand as much as the calls for of commercial use circumstances — powered by the Intel Atom x7211RE.
“Within the embedded trade, the lifecycle of many platforms could be very brief — new generations arrive rapidly, and older ones usually disappear simply as quick,” claims FORTEC Built-in’s Stefan Zieboll in assist of his firm’s newest launch. “The SBCPRO-X51 is intentionally designed in a different way: it’s not a short-term development product, however a sturdy base for industrial purposes that have to run stably for a few years. It’s a dependable platform for builders, purchasers, and product managers who require planning certainty and depend upon reliable {hardware}.”
FORTEC Built-in’s newest almost-single-board laptop options Intel’s low-power Atom x7211RE and three M.2 slots for growth. (📷: FORTEC Built-in)
The guts of the compact board — which, requiring the addition of a SODIMM for RAM, is not fairly a real single-board laptop — is the Intel Atom x7211RE, launched final 12 months as a low-power choice for embedded and industrial computing. The chip contains two cores operating at as much as 3.2GHz, 6MB of cache, and assist for operating INT8-precision machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads on-CPU through the OpenVINO framework — in an impressively low 6W energy envelope. The chip additionally contains an Intel UHD Graphics GPU with 16 execution models operating at as much as 1GHz, which likewise can run INT8 workloads.
The SBCPRO-X51 helps as much as 16GB of DDR5 reminiscence, half the restrict of the underlying Intel Atom chip, and contains DisplayPort (DP), a modular DisplayPort over USB Sort-C reference to Energy Supply (PD) assist, and an elective V-by-One show output, USB Sort-C and USB Sort-A ports combined between USB 3.2 Gen. 1 and USB 2.0, analog audio, RS232/422/485 serial ports, and general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) capabilities together with an I2C bus. There are two 2.5-gigabit-Ethernet ports plus elective Wi-Fi, and three M.2 slots for growth — although certainly one of these is taken up by a V-by-One daughterboard if you happen to select that choice, one other by the multi-functional USB Sort-C M.2 module, and the third if you happen to add the elective Wi-Fi module.
The corporate can also be providing the identical board as a ready-to-run enclosed “field PC.” (📷: FORTEC Built-in)
The board features a Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) appropriate with Home windows 11, with FORTEC Built-in promising full assist for Microsoft’s Home windows 11 IoT LTSC alongside “numerous Linux variants.” For industrial customers, your entire meeting comes with an prolonged temperature ranking of -20–80°C (-4–176°F) — and the corporate says it plans to maintain each the board itself and a ready-to-run “field PC” variant in manufacturing for an prolonged interval.
Extra info is on the market on the FORTEC Built-in web site; the corporate has not publicly disclosed pricing.
