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Mini-ITX board for power-hungry industrial applications.

The new PH14ADI-H610-12V mini-ITX motherboard is equipped with the Intel® H610 chipset and offers a wide range of powerful features for use in applications such as automation and control.

The PH14ADI-H610-12V motherboard features two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots with a capacity of up to 64 GB. These enable high memory flexibility and provide sufficient memory capacity for demanding applications. The motherboard supports dual-display operation with two DisplayPort connectors, which enables efficient and versatile image output. To ensure fast...

High-performance ATX mainboard for the 13th Intel® generation.

The latest Intel® processor generation Alder Lake-S can be operated on the newly introduced ATX motherboard IMBA-R680 from ICP Germany.

The IMBA-R680 is equipped with the R680E chipset and supports thirteenth and twelfth generation Intel® Core™ I, Pentium®, or Celeron® processors. With its four 288-pin DDR5 SDRAM sockets, the IMBA-R680 can accommodate up to 128GB of memory in dual-channel with or without ECC.

For mass storage, the IMBA-R680 has four SATA interfaces supporting RAID configurations RAID 0/1/5/10 and two M.2 2242/2280 (NGFF) M Key slots for NVME x4 SSDs. The IMBA-R680 has numerous interfaces. Monitors can be connected to an HDMI port, a display port or the iDPM interface, which offers eDP, VGA, LVDS or VBO via adapter boards. Furthermore, two LAN ports with Intel I225V 2.5GbE controllers, eight USB 3.2, four USB 2.0 ports as well as two RS 232/422/485 and four RS-232 interfaces are available for the...

Alder Lake EPIC motherboard with PCIe expansion slot.

With the NANO-ADL-P ICP Germany launches an EPIC board, which is equipped with the latest Intel® processor generation and offers a standard PCIe x4 expansion slot. The performance of the latest processor generation and the expandability through the standard PCIe slot are ideal prerequisites for system integrators to satisfy power-hungry applications as well as to build systems with multiple connectivity options.

ICP Germany offers two entry-level and two high-performance variants. For simple applications, the NANO-ADL-P-CC with Intel® Celeron® 7305 offers five processor cores, divided into one Performance and four Efficient cores, and a CPU clock speed of 1.1GHz. The NANO-ADL-P-i3C with Intel® Core™ i3-1215U processor offers six processor cores, two Performance and four Efficient cores, and a clock speed of up to 4.4GHz. The two high-performance variants NANO-ADL-P-i7C and NANO-ADL-P-i5C offer ten processor cores, which are divided into two Performance and 8 Efficient cores. The Intel® Core™ i5-1235U has a maximum clock speed of 4.4 GHz and the Intel® Core™ i7-1255U processor a maximum of 4.7 GHz.

All variants are equipped with 8GB LPDDR4x 3200 MHz...

Redundant 20-Port Gigabit Ethernet Managed Switch for Power Distribution Systems.

ICP Germany presents with the IGS-P9164 series managed Gigabit Ethernet switches, which are especially suitable for power supply and railroad applications. The switches meet the requirements of IEC 61850-3 and Railway EN50155 standards.

The IGS-P9164 series supports redundant ring networks such as O-ring, open-ring and O-chain and is compatible with MSTP (RSTP/STP) Ethernet redundancy. Recovery time is less than 30ms with 250 devices connected. Supporting IEC 62439-2 MRP (Media Redundancy Protocol) and IEEE 1588v2 clock synchronization, as well as IPV6 protocol version, Modbus TCP protocol, HTTPS/SSH protocols for network security, IEEE 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet technology, SMTP client and NTP server protocols, LLDP protocol, and many more features, this switch provides a reliable and efficient network solution...

Retrofittable and scalable AI plug-in cards.

Behind the name MiAi-H8 hides a novelty in the portfolio of ICP Germany. The first PCI Express plug-in card equipped with Hailo-8™ AI processors. The MiAi-H8 is designed for the PCI Express bus of the third generation and has 16 PCIe lanes. Two versions with two variants each are available for the expansion of standard computer systems. A version with four as well as a version with eight Hailo-8™ AI processors provide sufficient inference performance for AI applications.

Variant one with four Hailo-8™ processors achieves a performance of 104 TOPs, 5,300 FPS inference performance when using ResNet, and 900 FPS with YOLO v5m...

PICO-ITX board with Elkhard Lake processor.

The high-performance Hyper-EHL board from ICP Germany is a cost-effective solution for applications requiring high reliability, such as industrial automation, machine control, traffic engineering and display systems.

The Hyper-EHL board can be purchased with two different Elkhard Lake CPUs: Variant one with Intel® Celeron J6412 offers four processor cores, a base clock frequency of 2.00 GHz, 1.5 MB cache and an Intel® processor graphics unit with 400 MHz, while variant two with Intel® Celeron N6210 brings two processor cores, 1.20 GHz base clock frequency, 1.50 MB cache an Intel® processor graphics unit with 250...

Convertible All-in-One PC with Narrow Bezel Design.

The K730 All-in-One PC series with four display sizes, in an appealing modular design, is available from ICP Germany. The 11.6", 15.6" and 21.5" versions support FullHD resolution, the 18.5" version WXGA. The aesthetic narrow bezel display with PCAP touch screen can be operated with gloves or wet hands. The modularity of the K730 series is demonstrated by the numerous add-on devices, such as NFC reader, fingerprint reader, as well as light bar module. The all-in-one PCs can be used in both portrait and landscape mode and can be attached and used via different stands and mounts...

Strong performance with up to two graphics cards in GPU computing environment.

The new MZ1-10ADP from ICP Germany is designed for high performance in the GPU environment. The embedded PC supports up to two graphics cards with a total power of 900 W and offers numerous I/O connections.

With the Intel® R680E chipset, high-performance CPUs from the Intel® Alder Lake S - Xeon and Core i series with a power of up to 125W can be installed. The RAM can be expanded up to 64GB with two 262-pin SO-DIMM DDR5 RAM with 4800 MHz. The following slots are available for mass storage: two hot swappable 2.5" SSD/HDD trays, two hot swappable 3.5" SSD/HDD trays, two mSATA slots, two M.2 slots and one CFast slot. Five PCIe slots with partially selectable lanes are available: x16, x8, x4 and x1. A fast transfer with up to 2.5...

How does the efficiency of a power supply affect the cost of electricity?

If we consider the efficiency of a power supply with 85 percent, this means that 17.6 watts are lost for a power supply with 100 watts output power.

If we use power supplies with a higher efficiency, for example with 90 percent, the power loss is 11.1 watts. This also means that 6.5 watts less loss is dissipated to the environment as waste heat.

For an industrial PC in 24-hour operation, this means an avoidance of 56.9 kWh per year. If 100 systems are operated, we are talking about a saving of 5,694 kWh or 2084 euros at current electricity prices.

If we consider the CO2 savings, we arrive with the CO2 emission factor of 0.353 kg CO2 at an avoidance of two tons of CO2.

This calculation shows that even small steps can have a positive effect: When purchasing new electronics, not only can money be saved, but the environment is also relieved.

Read also the cover story of "Außenwirtschaft aktuell", "Green IT: From power-saving mode to global mindset", author: Harald Behnstedt, IHK magazine Außenwirtschaft aktuell, issue 11-12-2022: