New-Tech Europe Magazine | Q3 2020

The battle of the box PCs has begun

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NUC successfully established itself as a mini box PC standard and while Intel has been the dominant player in this 4x4 form factor, AMD appears to be making up market share. The market is changing– especially in the industrial environment. When it comes to low-power, high-performance embedded applications, AMD provides compelling graphics performance, multiple display support and power- to-performance scalability with its AMD Ryzen Embedded processor technology. Both of the currently available AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 Series processors integrate the ‘Zen’ CPU and ‘Vega’ graphics architectures, with high performance levels that are scalable from 6 to 54 watts in a pin- compatible package. Both variants also provide high energy efficiency has

up to 4 multi-threaded cores plus, discrete graphics processing that delivers up to 3.6 TFLOPS 16FP. This enables high-resolution, high- performance and4K multi-display 3D graphics for digital signage applications and immersive gaming. However, this level of performance is also beneficial for many industrial applications, such as industrial image processing in quality assurance, object recognition for situational awareness or AI-based edge analysis for predictive maintenance. AMDRyzen Embedded processors are supporting a growing ecosystem of software partners with pre-validated packages based on open source software for high-performance computingandartificial intelligence at the edge.The AMD Ryzen Embedded processors support a wide range of thermal design profiles (TDPs) and help application developers achieve

optimum performance per watt and have full advantage of thermal limits. Such low power consumption allows the design of fanless and hermetically sealed systems. This design principle prevents the ingress of dirt and particles and improves the reliability of the overall system in harsh environments. Additionally, the processors support an extended temperature range of -40 °C to +105 °C, making them ideal for use in even the most challenging industrial settings. In all, AMD Ryzen Embedded processors are attractive for a wide range of industrial application areas, and in many cases only simple box systems are required since they tend to support all relevant interfaces, are compact, and available as application-ready certified systems from different manufacturers – for instance, in the eNUC form factor as standardized by the SGET.

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