American Portwell Technology Inc, Fremont, CA, has launched a processor designed to address applications that require low power consumption. Fremont, CA, has launched a processor designed to address applications that require low power consumption. The company’s ROBO-8210VG2AR supports a choice of Intel's latest Core i5 or i7 processor with the Mobile Intel QM57 Express chip set in a PICMG 1.3 standard system host board (SHB) with DDR3 SDRAM, DVI-I, dual gigabit Ethernet, audio, and USB. The ROBO-8210VG2AR processor-based PICMG 1.3 SHB is ideal for applications such as medical imaging equipment.

The processor offers up to 8GB DDR3 1066/800 SDRAM on two 240-pin DIMM sockets, a Gen 5.75 3D graphics engine (integrated in the Intel Core i5/i7 processor), and a dual display via DVI-I interface. It also has an iAMT 6.0 and external TPM via TPM module, a dual gigabit Ethernet based on PCI-E x1, and a high bandwidth I/O interface. Rich I/O connections such as FDD, as well as two gigabit Ethernet serial ports, a parallel port, USB 2.0, and four onboard SATA ports to support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 are also included. The ROBO-8210VG2AR SHB also provides legacy support for Intel Celeron processor P4500.

Because it is powered by up to four processor execution cores via the Intel Core i5/i7 processor, the company says the configuration delivers better multitasking and multithreaded performance. Built-in support for the Gen 5.75 3D graphics engine provides improved 3-D multimedia capabilities, including Microsoft DirectX, 10, Shadier Model 4.0, MPEG-2 and OpenGL 2.1. the SHB's use of the Intel GMA X4500 enables optimized graphics performance. High-speed performance is enabled by channeling the output of the Core i5/i7 processors and Mobile QM57 Express chip set through dual gigabit Ethernet.